Drug resistance

Disease specific drug resistance

A health worker gives TB medication to a patient

Many infectious diseases risk becoming uncontrollable and could derail the progress made towards reaching the targets of the health-related United Nations Millennium Development Goals set for 2015.

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Highlights

Manual for the laboratory identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens of public health concern in the developing world

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE OUTSIDE OF WHO HEADQUARTERS