Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance.

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Published in Clin Microbiol Infect on July 27, 2011

Authors

A-P Magiorakos1, A Srinivasan, R B Carey, Y Carmeli, M E Falagas, C G Giske, S Harbarth, J F Hindler, G Kahlmeter, B Olsson-Liljequist, D L Paterson, L B Rice, J Stelling, M J Struelens, A Vatopoulos, J T Weber, D L Monnet

Author Affiliations

1: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden. anna-pelagia.magiorakos@ecdc.europa.eu

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