Neonatal Sepsis in South Asia: Huge Burden and Spiralling Antimicrobial Resistance

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Jan 24

PMID 30670451

Citations 99

Authors

Suman Chaurasia

Sindhu Sivanandan

Ramesh Agarwal

Sally Ellis

Mike Sharland

M Jeeva Sankar

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