Antibiotic use worldwide

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1179-1180

  Högberg, Liselotte Diaz ^a,b   Muller, Arno ^a   Zorzet, Anna ^a   Monnet, Dominique L ^b,c   Cars, Otto ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG USE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84922643611     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70987-9     Document Type: Letter

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