Comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Koen B Pouwels; Christopher C Butler; Julie V Robotham

doi:10.7554/eLife.46561

Comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Elife. 2019 May 3:8:e46561. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46561.

Authors

Koen B Pouwels^{1

2}, Christopher C Butler³, Julie V Robotham^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Modelling and Economics Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom.
³ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Abstract

We are writing to comment on the recent study by Olesen et al., 2018 on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance.

Keywords: E. coli; S. pyogenes; antibiotic resistance; antibiotic use; antimicrobial; bacteria; epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; microbiology.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents*
Drug Resistance, Microbial

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Grants and funding

The authors declare that there was no funding for this work.