Commentary

South Africa’s capacity to conduct antimicrobial stewardship

Sarentha Chetty
Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases | Vol 36, No 1 | a297 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v36i1.297 | © 2021 Sarentha Chetty | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 April 2021 | Published: 28 September 2021

About the author(s)

Sarentha Chetty, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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Keywords

antimicrobial stewardship; capacity; antimicrobial resistance; health systems strengthening

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