The need for new antibiotics

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9715, 2010, Pages 637-

  Vento, Sandro ^a   Cainelli, Francesca ^a  

^a Institute of Health Sciences   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF MEDICATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; NOTE; PHARMACEUTICS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 76749170201     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60264-4     Document Type: Letter

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