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Achieving Antimicrobial Stewardship on the Global Scale: Challenges and Opportunities








This article is published externally in Microorganisms Volume 10, Issue 8, 2022 Microorganisms is a a scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of microbiology published monthly online by MDPI.


Pinto Ferreira, J.; Battaglia, D.; Dorado García, A.; Tempelman, K.; Bullon, C.; Motriuc, N.; Caudell, M.; Cahill, S.; Song, J.; LeJeune, J. Achieving Antimicrobial Stewardship on the Global Scale: Challenges and Opportunities. Microorganisms 202210, 1599. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10081599


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