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Marlieke E A de Kraker1, Andrew J Stewardson2, Stephan Harbarth1
1Infection Control Program, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Plos Medicine
|November 30, 2016
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Marlieke de Kraker and colleagues reflect on the need for better global estimates for the burden of antimicrobial resistance.
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