Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Resistance in Vanuatu: January 2017 to December 2019
Nicola D Foxlee1, Nicola Townell2, Mary Ann L Tosul3
1Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
|April 5, 2020
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Keywords: drug resistance; antimicrobial; public health surveillance; Pacific Islands; bacteriology; epidemiology.
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