Antibiotic resistance - Experience in a tertiary care hospital in South India

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL DEC2010, 2010, Pages 18-22

  Subbalaxmi, M V S ^a   Lakshmi, V ^a   Lavanya, V ^a  

^a NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG UTILIZATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 79960049691     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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