A Feasible Laboratory-Strengthening Intervention Yielding a Sustainable Clinical Bacteriology Sector to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship in a Large Referral Hospital in Ethiopia
Background: Access to clinical bacteriology in low resource settings (LRS) is a key bottleneck preventing individual patient management of treatable severe infections, detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and implementation of effective stewardship interventions. We sought to demonstrate the...
Main Authors: | Cedric P. Yansouni, Daniel Seifu, Michael Libman, Tinsae Alemayehu, Solomon Gizaw, Øystein Haarklau Johansen, Workeabeba Abebe, Wondwossen Amogne, Makeda Semret |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00258/full |
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