Detection of Rare Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles by Active and Passive Surveillance Approaches.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance systems are generally not specifically designed to detect emerging resistances and usually focus primarily on resistance to individual drugs. Evaluating the diversity of resistance, using ecological metrics, allows the assessment of sampling protocols with...

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Main Authors: Alison E Mather, Richard Reeve, Dominic J Mellor, Louise Matthews, Richard J Reid-Smith, Lucie Dutil, Daniel T Haydon, Stuart W J Reid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158515