Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance: The WHONET program

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Stelling, John M ^a   O'Brien, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031028684     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.supplement_1.s157     Document Type: Article

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