Epidemiology and burden of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection in a developing country

Epidemiology and burden of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection in a developing country

Little is known about the excess mortality caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infection in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We retrospectively obtained microbiology laboratory and hospital databases of nine public hospitals in northeast Thailand from 2004 to 2010, and linked thes...

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Main Authors: Cherry Lim, Emi Takahashi, Maliwan Hongsuwan, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Visanu Thamlikitkul, Soawapak Hinjoy, Nicholas PJ Day, Sharon J Peacock, Direk Limmathurotsakul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
antimicrobial resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
K. pneumoniae
P. aeruginosa
Enterococcus
Acinetobacter
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/18082

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