The pandemic of antibiotic resistance

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-149

  Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032959434     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5507     Document Type: Short Survey

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