Sentinel Surveillance: A Reliable Way To Track Antibiotic Resistance in Communities?

We used population-based data to evaluate how often groups of randomly selected clinical laboratories accurately estimated the prevalence of resistant pneumococci and captured trends in resistance over time. Surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease was conducted in eight states from 1996 to 19...

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Main Authors: Stephanie J. Schrag, Elizabeth R. Zell, Anne Schuchat, Cynthia G. Whitney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/5/01-0268_article