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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.44</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Nosocomial Pathogens- A Single Center Study in Saudi Arabia</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>A. Khan</surname>
                        <given-names>Mushtaq</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
                		
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>A. Al-Motair</surname>
                        <given-names>Khalid</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>M. Alenezi</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>S. Altheban</surname>
                        <given-names>Ahmed</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>A. Hammam</surname>
                        <given-names>Sahar</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>S. Al-Mogbel</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Molecular Diagnostic and Personalized Therapeutics Unit, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Ha’il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">College of Nursing, University of Ha’il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">Ha’il Maternity Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1411</fpage>
            <lpage>1416</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/nosocomial-pathogens-a-single-center-study-in-saudi-arabia/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>The increasing prevalence of nosocomial pathogens in hospital environment has
become a serious concern with significant morbidity, mortality and high cost burden on society
and health care systems worldwide. This increase has been mainly associated with increased
health care-associated infections (HAIs), a surge of antibiotic use and new developments in life
saving medical practices. The problem is further complicated by the emergence of difficult to
treat multidrug-resistant (MDR) micro-organisms. In order to control and reduce the prevalence
of nosocomial pathogens within healthcare settings, it becomes imperative to acquire the
knowledge about the source and transmission of these difficult to treat pathogens. The aim of
this study was to screen the patients, staff and the environment of Maternity Hospital in northern
part of Saudi Arabia. In this study, 878 swabs were collected from a range of body sites from
patients, staff and from the hospital environment like walls, beds, taps, computer keyboards
and ventilator surfaces. The isolated bacterial strains were identified by conventional methods
as well as by automated methods, including MALDI-TOF-MS and Microscan. Furthermore, the
antimicrobial susceptibility was performed by Microscan. In this study, 157 different bacterial
strains were isolated including, S. aureus (32.48%), E. coli (19.74%), K. pneumoniae (32.48%),
Enterobacter spp. (5.73%), Citrobacter (0.63%) and P. aeruginosa (8.9%). Among these bacterial
isolates, 41.4% were found to be in staff, 56.6% in patients and 1.9% in hospital environment
respectively. The antibiotic susceptibility results revealed that, 57% and 43% of MRSA were
found among staff members and patients respectively. All (100%) Extended spectrum â-lactamase
(ESBL) positive E. coli and 91% ESBL positive K. pneumoniae were found among patients
respectively. The findings of current study showed a high percentage of nosocomial pathogens
prevalent in Maternity Hospital in Ha’il region of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, a high percentage
of multi drug resistant strains from both patients and staff members further stresses on the
importance of surveillance and effective infection control strategies to be implemented among
the hospitals and healthcare facilities in Saudi Arabia.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Nosocomial pathogens</kwd>
        <kwd>Antimicrobial Resistance</kwd>
			<kwd>Microbial Identification</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
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