Vaccination to reduce antimicrobial resistance
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Vaccination: a novel approach to reduce antibiotic resistance.
The state of Tennessee has had, for the past 2 decades, the greatest burden of antibiotic resistant pneumococci isolated in the United States, culminating, in 1999, in rates of penicillin resistance as high as 60% among blood isolates from young children !2 years of age [1]. It is not just the proportion of penicillin-nonsusceptible strains isolated from blood that is remarkable , but also the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30043-3