Editorial: National antibiotic resistance surveillance and control

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-190

  Raghunath, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; COLISTIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT; PLASMID; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT DURATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STANDARD;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 77955120567     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.66463     Document Type: Editorial

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