"Chennai Declaration": 5-year plan to tackle the challenge of anti-microbial resistance

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 221-228

  Ghafur, Abdul ^a,b  

^a Chennai Declaration Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee Clinical Infectious Diseases Society   (India)

^b APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DRUG USE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84905660211     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.129053     Document Type: Article

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