Expert review of anti-infective therapy
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Infectious diseases are major causes of mortality in India. This is aggravated by the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) both in the community and in hospitals. ⋯ The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Govt. of India has taken initiatives to tackle AMR. Extensive guidelines have been drafted and a model worksheet has been developed as a roadmap to tackle AMR.
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Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther · Dec 2014
EditorialDiscovery of forgotten variola specimens at the National Institutes of Health in the USA.
In early July 2014, the National Institutes of Health in the USA discovered a few vials containing smallpox virus in their Bethesda, Maryland facility. The subsequent investigation, performed by US CDC, documented viable virus in two of the discovered vials that were subjected to tissue culture testing.