A review of 40 years of enteric antimicrobial resistance research in Eastern Africa: What can be done better?

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Omulo, Sylvia ^a   Thumbi, Samuel M ^a   Njenga, M Kariuki ^b   Call, Douglas R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Eastern Africa; Minimum reporting guidelines

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BROTH DILUTION; BURUNDI; COMMUNITY; DILUTION; DISK DIFFUSION; EPSILOMETER TEST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHIOPIA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KENYA; MINIMUM REPORTING GUIDELINE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RWANDA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TANZANIA; UGANDA; VIBRIO;

EID: 84938484874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-014-0041-4     Document Type: Article

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