HOSPITAL-BASED SURVEILLANCE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA IN PERU KU Leuven
The global emergence of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized as a major threat to human kind. Although antimicrobial resistance is a global problem, low and middle income countries, are disproportionally affected by this threat. Peru, a middle-income country, has one of the highest rates of resistance to third-generation cephalosporins among Gram-negative bacteria in Latin-American and worldwide. Importantly, these rates are ...