Abstract:It is a common practice for clinicians to administer antimicrobial agents to patients suffering from bacterial infections without recourse to laboratory diagnosis which provides information on the antibiogram of the etiologic agents. This may result to the use of less efficacious drugs that might lead to long time hospitalization, death of patients and/or opportunity for bacterial species to develop resistant to some of these antimicrobial agents. This is the reason why, this study was carried out to determine… Show more
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