Antimicrobial resistance: It's not just for hospitals

JAMA

Volumn 298, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1803-1804

  Bancroft, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Acute Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM; ENTEROTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 35349005704     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.298.15.1803     Document Type: Editorial

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