Infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria-has the post-antibiotic era arrived in companion animals?

Zoonoses-Infections Affecting Humans and Animals: Focus on Public Health Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 433-452

  Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Walther, Birgit ^a   Walther, Szilvia ^a   Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Lübke Becker, Antina ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84943235613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9457-2_17     Document Type: Chapter

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