TY - GEN AU - Mohammad Nazeem Hemdan Alafify AU - Mohamed Fathy Hassan Hussain , AU - Raef Hosny Iman , TI - Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) - causative organisms and resistance patterns among hospitalized patients with pneumonia in some governmental hospitals / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohammad Nazeem Hemdan Alafify , KW - Hospital acquired pneumonia KW - Methicillin resistant staphylococcus KW - Ventilator - associated pneumonia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis; Issued also as CD N2 - HAP remains as an important cause of morbidity and mortality despite advances in antimicrobial therapy better supportive care modalities and use of wide preventive measures it increases hospital stay and produces an excess cost this froms a universal health problem that is propagated in developing countries such as Egypt ER -