Publications by authors named "Marah El-Beeli"
Background: Data from developed/developed countries have shown that hospital-acquired blood infections (HA-BSIs) are one of the most severe nosocomial infections and constitute 20%-60% of hospitalization-related deaths. Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates and the enormous burden of health care costs associated with HA-BSIs, to our knowledge, there are few published reports on HA-BSI prevalence estimates in Arab countries, including Oman.
Objectives: This study aims to explore the HA-BSI prevalence estimates over selected sociodemographic characteristics among admitted patients at a tertiary hospital in Oman over five years of follow-up.
Article Synopsis
- 15-30% of AIDS patients do not regain normal CD4(+) T cell levels after antiretroviral therapy, even when HIV-1 replication is successfully suppressed.
- The study investigated 65 adult AIDS patients with controlled viral loads to explore reasons for immune recovery failure, focusing on HLA alleles.
- Findings showed that carriers of HLA-A68 and HLA-B15 had significantly higher proportions of poor immune responses, with potential etiological contributions of 57.89% and 61.35%, respectively.
Background: Antimicrobial resistance is increasingly recognized as a global challenge. A few studies have emerged on epidemiology of multidrug resistant organisms in tertiary care settings in the Arabian Gulf.
Aim: To describe the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Oman.