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Lebanon
APUA-Lebanon was founded in March of 2003 and currently has 6 members. It is affiliated with the Saint George University Hospital, Nini Hospital, and Rizk Hospital, among others. Its goals for the upcoming years are to:
- conduct activities aimed at raising awareness of the problem of resistance in Lebanon and the misuse and abuse of antibiotics,
- increase the knowledge of Lebanese laboratories about appropriate methods for detection of resistance in clinical and environmental isolates,
- encourage research and educational projects.
- work in collaboration with other national and international institutions for the development of a national center for policy making to monitor the use of antibiotics.
Drs. Hakime et al., of the APUA-Lebanon chapter, have written a case study of the first reported case of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus in Lebanon. Full Article
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