Antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients in King Abdullah University Hospital in Jordan.

摘要

Pseudomonas aeruginosa continues to be the leading cause of nosocomial infections, or about 9-10% of hospital infections. It is responsible for infections occurring in patients in intensive care units (ICU), particularly with ventilator-associated pneumonia, surgical site infection, urinary tract infection, or sepsis and in patients with burns, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasias, neutropenia or cancer