Starting Life Resistance-Free

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 323, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 335-337

  Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0025330408     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199008023230509     Document Type: Editorial

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