Journal article
'Antibiotic footprint' as a communication tool to aid reduction of antibiotic consumption
- Abstract:
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‘Superbugs’, bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, have been in numerous media headlines, raising awareness of antibiotic resistance and leading to multiple action plans from policymakers worldwide. However, many commonly used terms, such as ‘the war against superbugs’, risk misleading people to request ‘new’ or ‘stronger’ antibiotics from their doctors, veterinary surgeons or pharmacists, rather than addressing a fundamental issue: the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in human...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Journal website
- Volume:
- 74
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 2122-2127
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2091
- ISSN:
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0305-7453
- Pmid:
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31074489
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:999367
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- Local pid:
- pubs:999367
- Source identifiers:
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999367
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Limmathurotsakul, D et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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