The challenges and successes of implementing a sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme in Nepal

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Malla, Sarala ^a   Dumre, Shyam Prakash ^a,b   Shakya, Geeta ^a   Kansakar, Palpasa ^a   Rai, Bhupraj ^a   Hossain, Anowar ^c   Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ^c,d   Albert, M John ^c,e   Sack, David ^c,f   Baker, Stephen ^g   Rahman, Motiur ^c,g  

^a Minister for Health and Population Nepal   (Nepal)

^b Tammasat University   (Thailand)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d Translational Health Science and Technology Institute   (India)

^e KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance surveillance; Enteric pathogens; Nepal; Respiratory pathogens; Sexually transmitted disease pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEPAL; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEPAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84898428016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-269     Document Type: Article

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