Executive summary: Global antimicrobial resistance alerts and implications

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Chea, Phakdey ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG LEGISLATION; GONORRHEA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; MALARIA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 23244467277     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430780     Document Type: Short Survey

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