Antimicrobial resistance in human and animal pathogens in Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Tanzania: An urgent need of a sustainable surveillance system

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mshana, Stephen E ^a   Matee, Mecky ^b   Rweyemamu, Mark ^c  

^a WEILL BUGANDO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONGO; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANZANIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOZAMBIQUE; TANZANIA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84885355046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-12-28     Document Type: Review

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