TY - JOUR AU - Kassem, Diana Faour AU - Hoffmann, Yoav AU - Shahar, Naama AU - Ocampo, Smadar AU - Salomon, Liora AU - Zonis, Zeev AU - Glikman, Daniel T1 - Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens in Hospitalized Syrian Children T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 166 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - antibiotic resistance KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - bacteria KW - carriage KW - infections KW - pediatric KW - Syria KW - Israel KW - children KW - multidrug resistance DO - 10.3201/eid2301.161204 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/1/16-1204_article ER - End of Reference