Opinion Paper

COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance: Another call to strengthen laboratory diagnostic capacity in Africa

Beverly Egyir, Noah Obeng-Nkrumah, George B. Kyei
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 9, No 1 | a1302 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v9i1.1302 | © 2020 Beverly Egyir, Noah Obeng-Nkrumah, George B. Kyei | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 June 2020 | Published: 23 September 2020

About the author(s)

Beverly Egyir, Bacteriology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Noah Obeng-Nkrumah, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
George B. Kyei, Virology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Abstract

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Keywords

COVID 19; Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Africa

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