Unwanted souvenirs: Travel and multi-resistant bacteria

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 297-298

  Woodford, Neil ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; TRAVEL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 80052433536     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00541.x     Document Type: Editorial

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