Diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship workforce challenges: A crisis in combating antimicrobial resistance

Tristan T Timbrook^{1

2}, Andrea M Prinzi¹, Emily S Spivak³

Affiliations

¹ bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France.
² University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Tristan T Timbrook et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 29;3(1):e60.

doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.147. eCollection 2023.

Tristan T Timbrook^{1

2}, Andrea M Prinzi¹, Emily S Spivak³

¹ bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France.
² University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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