A public health emergency of international concern? response to a proposal to apply the international health regulations to antimicrobial resistance

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3-

  Kamradt Scott, Adam ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; INFECTION RISK; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MANDATORY REPORTING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79955488122     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001021     Document Type: Article

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