Inappropriate use of antibiotics and its associated factors among urban and rural communities of Bahir Dar city administration, northwest Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Gebeyehu, Endalew ^a   Bantie, Laychiluh ^a   Azage, Muluken ^a  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG MISUSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF MEDICATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84945560789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138179     Document Type: Article

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