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Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Blood Culture Isolates at a Tertiary Hospital, Uganda
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 174-175 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018.
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Abstract
- We summarize antimicrobial drug resistance (AMR) patterns from blood cultures at a tertiary hospital in Uganda. High rates of resistance to first-line antibiotic drugs were observed among Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative organisms. Microbiology services with susceptibility testing should be strengthened to support standardized reporting of AMR data in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Susceptibility testing
Epidemiology
microbial sensitivity tests
030106 microbiology
lcsh:Medicine
medicine.disease_cause
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Blood Culture Isolates at a Tertiary Hospital, Uganda
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
antibacterial drug resistance
parasitic diseases
medicine
Research Letter
lcsh:RC109-216
Blood culture
Uganda
bacteria
Antibiotic Drugs
High rate
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
business.industry
antimicrobial drug resistance
lcsh:R
biology.organism_classification
Antibacterial Drug Resistance
Antimicrobial drug
Infectious Diseases
Staphylococcus aureus
antibiotic drug resistance
business
Bacteria
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....81364cfa058ecd7983a0a6714d885d3f