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Author Spotlight: Understanding and Detecting Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance by Combining Culture-Based Techniques and Genomics
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Global burden of antimicrobial resistance: essential pieces of a global puzzle - Authors' reply
Mohsen Naghavi1, Christopher J L Murray1, Kevin S Ikuta2
1Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Lancet (London, England)
|June 26, 2022
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