Pattern of antimicrobial resistance in the pre and during COVID-19 era: An observational study.

Microbes and Infectious Diseases /Microbes and Infectious Diseases

Rania Kishk, Noha M Abu Bakr, Maha Anani, Nader Nemr, Bassam Salama, Mohammed Samahy, Safaa M. Kishk, Naglaa E. Salem, Hasnaa Mohamed

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9

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17

Abstract

Background: World Health Organization has documented the exaggerated use of broad-spectrum antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic raising warnings of increasing antimicrobial resistance. Aim: This is an observational cross-sectional comparative study that was done to describe the pattern of antibiotics resistance before and during the COVID-19 era to explain if this pattern is affected with usin...

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Keywords

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Observational study

Antimicrobial

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Antibiotic resistance

Medicine

Virology

Biology

Microbiology

Internal medicine

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Antibiotics

Outbreak

Disease

2023

Article

Open Access

Institution

Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.,

Public Health, Community, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine, Ismailia 41522, Egypt. Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, King Salman International University, South Sinai, Egypt.

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0.484

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21608/mid.2023.217092.1539

Language

en

Country

Egypt