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Epidemiology of burn-related infections in the largest burn unit in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed E. Mater, Ayman E. Yamani, Ahmad A. Aljuffri and Sumayah A. Binladen
Saudi Medical Journal July 2020, 41 (7) 726-732; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.7.25141
Mohammed E. Mater
From the Department of Plastic Surgery (Mater, Yamani), Burns Unit, Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Department of Pediatric Surgery (Aljuffri), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Binladen), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ayman E. Yamani
From the Department of Plastic Surgery (Mater, Yamani), Burns Unit, Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Department of Pediatric Surgery (Aljuffri), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Binladen), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmad A. Aljuffri
From the Department of Plastic Surgery (Mater, Yamani), Burns Unit, Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Department of Pediatric Surgery (Aljuffri), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Binladen), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sumayah A. Binladen
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vol. 41 no. 7 726-732
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.7.25141
PubMed 
32601641

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 7, 2020
  • Accepted May 30, 2020
  • Published online July 1, 2020.

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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. Mohammed E. Mater, MBBS⇑,
  2. Ayman E. Yamani, MBBS, FRCSC,
  3. Ahmad A. Aljuffri, MBBS and
  4. Sumayah A. Binladen, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Plastic Surgery (Mater, Yamani), Burns Unit, Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Department of Pediatric Surgery (Aljuffri), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Binladen), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammed E. Mater, Department of Plastic Surgery, Burns Unit, Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Mohammedmater{at}outlook.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6229-2190
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