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Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter vs. Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase-producing Klebsiella

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2020

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Mohammadreza Salehi, Sirous Jafari, Lida Ghafouri, Hossein Malekafzali Ardakani, Alireza Abdollahi, Mohammad Taghi Beigmohammadi, Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi, Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, Masoud Ramezani, Hamidreza Abtahi,
The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Abstract

Results of the present study demonstrated that VAPs caused by MDR-AB may be more hazardous than ESBL-KP VAPs because they could be accompanied by a longer hospitalization course and even a higher mortality.