Long-Term Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance Among Gram-Negative Clinical Isolates at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait (2007–2022)
Amani H. Al-Fadhli, Ahmad Al-Dhumair, Jenan AlShemerri, Fatema Al-Failakawy, Mohammad Al-Hasan, Qadreyah Ahmad Almatawah, Wafaa Y. Jamal · 2026
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Amani Al-Fadhli and co-authors tracked sixteen years of drug resistance in gut and hospital bacteria at a major Kuwait hospital, in a 2026 study. Nearly forty thousand samples of four Gram-negative species, from inpatients and outpatients between 2007 and 2022, came from the hospital's lab system. The team modeled resistance trends for five key drugs, correcting for the many tests.
Resistance climbed hard. In one species, Klebsiella, a workhorse drug class rose from twenty-seven to sixty percent resistant. The last-resort drug meropenem rose from one to thirty-five percent in the same species. The same climb, at lower levels, appeared in Escherichia coli samples. Acinetobacter stayed resistant to nearly all drugs except colistin. Pseudomonas, by contrast, barely moved. The authors urge continued watch and tighter stewardship before the last-resort drugs fail too.
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| CREATOR | Amani H. Al-Fadhli, Ahmad Al-Dhumair, Jenan AlShemerri, Fatema Al-Failakawy, Mohammad Al-Hasan, Qadreyah Ahmad Almatawah, Wafaa Y. Jamal |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |