Trends in reported antibiotic use among children under 5 years of age with fever, diarrhoea, or cough with fast or difficult breathing across low-income and middle-income countries in 2005-17: a systematic analysis of 132 national surveys from 73 countries

• Main Authors: Gbemisola Allwell-Brown, MD (Author), Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, PhD (Author), Freddy Eric Kitutu, PhD (Author), Susanne Strömdahl, PhD (Author), Andreas Mårtensson, ProfMD (Author), Emily White Johansson, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary: Background: Global assessments of antibiotic consumption have relied on pharmaceutical sales data that do not measure individual-level use, and are often unreliable or unavailable for low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). To help fill this evidence gap, we compiled data from natio...