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Epidemiology of Bloodstream Bacterial Infections and Missed Opportunities to Detect and Respond to Possible Outbreaks Due to Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Hospitals in Uganda: A Review of Retrospective National AMR Surveillance Data 2020 to 2023
2025-12-10
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Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a critical global health threat, with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) facing systemic challenges in the detection and response to outbreaks of resistant pathogens. Despite Uganda establishing a national AMR surveillance system, there are no systems for the real-time detection of AMR outbreaks due to limited laboratory capacity, standardised protocols and dat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8b937dac-b1ef-512d-a3aa-30bde8c90c0e
- DOI
- 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24366.1
