Save Antibiotics: A call for action of the World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance (WAAAR)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carlet, Jean ^a   Rambaud, Claude ^b   Pulcini, Céline ^c,d,e  

^a Comité inter associatif pour la santé ^*  (France)

^b CHU Nancy Service de Maladies Infectieuses ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e World Alliance Against Antimicrobial Resistance (WAAAR)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEMASE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIGECYCLINE; VACCINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84929515273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-436     Document Type: Letter

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