Fighting bacterial resistance at the root: need for adapted EMEA guidelines.

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Published in Lancet Infect Dis on January 01, 2011

Authors

Antoine Andremont1, Marc Bonten, Jan Kluytmans, Yehuda Carmeli, Otto Cars, Stephan Harbarth

Author Affiliations

1: University of Paris, France. antoine.andremont@bch.aphp.fr

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