The latest threat in the war on antimicrobial resistance

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 578-579

  Pitout, Johann DD ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; BETA LACTAM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TIGECYCLINE; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAR; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MEDICAL TOURISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEDICAL TOURISM;

EID: 77955919286     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70168-7     Document Type: Letter

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