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The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates producing OXA-48 and NDM in the Southern (Asir) province, Saudi Arabia

Ibrahim A. Al-Zahrani and Bander A. Alasiri
Saudi Medical Journal January 2018, 39 (1) 23-30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21094
Ibrahim A. Al-Zahrani
From the Laboratory Technology Department (Al-Zahrani, Alasiri), Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University; from the Special Infectious Agents Unit-Biosafety Level-3 (Al-Zahrani), King Fahad Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah; and from the Department of Microbiology (Alasiri), Abha Maternity and Children Hospital, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Bander A. Alasiri
From the Laboratory Technology Department (Al-Zahrani, Alasiri), Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University; from the Special Infectious Agents Unit-Biosafety Level-3 (Al-Zahrani), King Fahad Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah; and from the Department of Microbiology (Alasiri), Abha Maternity and Children Hospital, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 39 no. 1 23-30
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21094
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29332105

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
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  • Received August 25, 2017
  • Accepted November 22, 2017
  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Ibrahim A. Al-Zahrani, MSc, PhD⇑ and
  2. Bander A. Alasiri, BSc, MSc
  1. From the Laboratory Technology Department (Al-Zahrani, Alasiri), Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University; from the Special Infectious Agents Unit-Biosafety Level-3 (Al-Zahrani), King Fahad Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah; and from the Department of Microbiology (Alasiri), Abha Maternity and Children Hospital, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr Ibrahim A. Al-Zahrani, Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: iaalzahrani1{at}kau.edu.sa ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3879-5833
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