What has kept the antibiotic miracle alive?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 953-955

  O'Brien, Thomas F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATHETER INFECTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 80052557349     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1108464     Document Type: Editorial

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