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Integration of molecular characterization of microorganisms in a global antimicrobial resistance surveillance program.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 May 2001
Pfaller M A, Acar J, Jones R N, Verhoef J, Turnidge J, Sader H S
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The SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program has incorporated molecular strain typing and resistance genotyping as a means of providing additional information that may be useful for understanding pathogenic microorganisms worldwide. Resistance phenotypes of interest include multidrug-resistant pathogens, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
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