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. 2017 Sep 5:358:j3768.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.j3768.

Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic surveillance of healthcare associated infections in India

Soumya Swaminathan  1 , Jagdish Prasad  2 , Akshay C Dhariwal  3 , Randeep Guleria  4 , Mahesh C Misra  4 , Rajesh Malhotra  4   5 , Purva Mathur  4   5 , Kamini Walia  1 , Sunil Gupta  3 , Aditya Sharma  6 , Vinod Ohri  1 , Sarika Jain  3 , Neil Gupta  6 , Kayla Laserson  7   8 , Paul Malpiedi  6 , Anoop Velayudhan  7   8 , Benjamin Park  6 , Padmini Srikantiah  9   8
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Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic surveillance of healthcare associated infections in India

Soumya Swaminathan et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Establishing and expanding government led networks to strengthen infection prevention and control and healthcare associated infection surveillance are essential to effectively tackle antimicrobial resistance. Soumya Swaminathan and colleagues discuss the progress in India

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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