Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Bangladesh (2014 Update)

Affiliations

¹ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh mustafizur@icddrb.org.
⁴ Save the Children, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Fenway Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Rasheda Khanam et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016.

. 2016 Jun 20;60(7):4418-9.

doi: 10.1128/AAC.00223-16. Print 2016 Jul.

¹ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh mustafizur@icddrb.org.
⁴ Save the Children, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Fenway Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

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