… and colonizing isolates to colistin is alarming as well. This is because colistin is used
sparingly in our hospitals and is not on the drug formulary of any hospital in Kuwait. its use is …

… presence of colistin resistance among clinical GNB isolated from Gaza Strip hospitals. Clinical
… in comparison to the published data in Kuwait in 2018 by Alfoiuzan et al. [15] where the …

… mrc-1 gene-mediated colistin resistance was not found among our colistin-resistant isolates
even … to Kuwait, this may lead to the introduction of this plasmid in the hospitals in Kuwait. …

… that colistin resistance is an emerging and potential problem of clinical significance worldwide,
and the spread of resistance … A study conducted in Beijing among healthy hospital FHs …

… KO-12 contained bla OXA-24 and had an intermediate resistance to ciprofloxacin and was
sensitive to carbapenems, colistin, and tigecycline. Therefore since this isolate did not match …

… the manufacturer’s instructions in microbiology laboratory at Farwania Hospital, Kuwait.
The selected isolates were preserved in Tripticase soy broth with 20% glycerol at −80 C [18]. …

… The prevalence of CRE colonization in the 2 hospital ICUs … rapid horizontal spread among
hospital patients in Kuwait. Active … Resistance to colistin and tigecycline appears to be on the …

… One study in Kuwait in 2016 found that 8% of K. pneumoniae isolates from different sources,
… pneumoniae isolates from a university hospital was resistant to colistin. The only one …

… of KPC variants in Kuwait hospitals and community as one E. … , colistin resistance was
conferred in an MDR K. pneumoniae isolate harbored pmrB_R256G gene obtained from a Kuwaiti …

… Seventy-five independent, colistin resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from clinical
cases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were tested by …