The population genetics of antibiotic resistance

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Levin, B R ^a   Lipsitch, M ^b   Perrot, V ^b   Schrag, S ^b   Antia, R ^b   Simonsen, L ^b   Walker, N Moore ^b   Stewart, F M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; R FACTORS;

EID: 0031021293     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.supplement_1.s9     Document Type: Article

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