Editorial

Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Africa: Successes, gaps and a roadmap for the future

Samuel Kariuki, Karen H. Keddy, Martin Antonio, Iruka N. Okeke
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 7, No 2 | a924 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v7i2.924 | © 2018 Samuel Kariuki, Karen H. Keddy, Martin Antonio, Iruka N. Okeke | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 October 2018 | Published: 06 December 2018

About the author(s)

Samuel Kariuki, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Karen H. Keddy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Martin Antonio, World Health Organization, Collaborating Centre for New Vaccines Surveillance, Medical Research Council Unit, at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia; and, Division of Microbiology & Immunity, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom
Iruka N. Okeke, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Keywords

antimicrobial resistance; surveillance; antimicrobial susceptibility testing

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