The need for new antibiotics

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9715, 2010, Pages 637-638

  Baiden, Frank ^a   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a   Webster, Jayne ^b   Chandramohan, Daniel ^b  

^a KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION; LETTER; MALARIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DRUG DESIGN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PHARMACEUTICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MALARIA; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 76749128817     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60265-6     Document Type: Letter

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