Publications by authors named "Jad El Tom"
Antifungal Use and Resistance in a Lower-Middle-Income Country: The Case of Lebanon.
Antibiotics (Basel)
September 2023
Article Synopsis
- * Lebanon's ongoing economic crisis has affected access to medical care, leading to increased antifungal drug prices, making the situation more critical as the impact of antifungal resistance remains poorly understood.
- * A survey identified 15 studies from 1998 to 2023, highlighting a predominant focus on candidiasis, increased infections in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a need for better diagnostics and antifungal stewardship programs to combat resistance effectively.
We sought to investigate the genetic epidemiological relatedness of carbapenem-resistant (CRAB) strains of a suspected outbreak in a Lebanese tertiary care hospital to implement necessary infection prevention and control measures. Twenty-eight nonduplicate CRAB isolates detected among hospitalized patients between January 2016 and July 2017 were studied by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing analyses. Twenty-seven isolates harbored , of which one also carried .
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