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Jun 2022
34m 21s

#16 How drug safety can help fight resis...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
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Send a message to the show! Managing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will require innovative solutions from many different disciplines. Could pharmacovigilance be one of them? Jean Marie Vianney Habarugira and Albert Figueras, who have been investigating how drug safety tools could help track AMR, think it’s time the two communities joined forces for good. T ... Show More
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