Drug-resistant bacterial infections: We need urgent action and investment that focus on the weakest link

Despite high mortality and morbidity, drug-resistant bacterial infections remain the forgotten pandemic. We argue for strengthening of diagnostics, WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) and infection prevention and control to reduce drug-resistant infections, as an integral part of sustainable high-...

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Autores principales: Dolecek, Christiane, Shakoor, Sadia, Basnyat, Buddha, Okwor, Tochi, Sartorius, Benn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9710749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36383561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001903
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author Dolecek, Christiane
Shakoor, Sadia
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Sartorius, Benn
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description Despite high mortality and morbidity, drug-resistant bacterial infections remain the forgotten pandemic. We argue for strengthening of diagnostics, WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) and infection prevention and control to reduce drug-resistant infections, as an integral part of sustainable high-quality health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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spelling pubmed-97107492022-12-01 Drug-resistant bacterial infections: We need urgent action and investment that focus on the weakest link Dolecek, Christiane Shakoor, Sadia Basnyat, Buddha Okwor, Tochi Sartorius, Benn PLoS Biol Perspective Despite high mortality and morbidity, drug-resistant bacterial infections remain the forgotten pandemic. We argue for strengthening of diagnostics, WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) and infection prevention and control to reduce drug-resistant infections, as an integral part of sustainable high-quality health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Public Library of Science 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9710749/ /pubmed/36383561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001903 Text en © 2022 Dolecek et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full_unstemmed Drug-resistant bacterial infections: We need urgent action and investment that focus on the weakest link
title_short Drug-resistant bacterial infections: We need urgent action and investment that focus on the weakest link
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