Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens in Hospitalized Syrian Children
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Zeev Zonis; Smadar Ocampo; Yoav Hoffmann; Daniel Glikman; Naama Shahar; Liora Salomon; Diana Faour Kassem
- Source
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 166-168 (2017)
- Subject
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
antibiotic resistance
Isolation (health care)
Epidemiology
030106 microbiology
lcsh:Medicine
Meropenem
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Antibiotic resistance
Medicine
lcsh:RC109-216
antimicrobial resistance
infections
030212 general & internal medicine
Screening cultures
bacteria
Pathogen
carriage
business.industry
lcsh:R
Multiple drug resistance
pediatric
Infectious Diseases
Carriage
Critical illness
business
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1080-6059
1080-6040
Since 2013, wounded and ill children from Syria have received treatment in Israel. Screening cultures indicated that multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens colonized 89 (83%) of 107 children. For 58% of MDR infections, the pathogen was similar to that identified during screening. MDR screening of these children is valuable for purposes of isolation and treatment.