Sentinel surveillance: A reliable way to track antibiotic resistance in communities?

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 496-502

  Schrag, Stephanie J ^a   Zell, Elizabeth R ^a   Schuchat, Anne ^a   Whitney, Cynthia G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0036090809     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0805.010268     Document Type: Article

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