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Public Awareness and Practices towards Self-Medication with Antibiotics among the Malaysian Population. A Development of Questionnaire and Pilot-Testing

It is well documented that injudicious antibiotic use and practicing self-medication with antibiotics (SMA) can lead to antibiotic resistance. The objective was to validate and develop an instrument in Bahasa Melayu to assess the awareness and practices towards SMA in the Malaysian population. A pil...

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Main Authors:	Adeel Aslam (Author), Márió Gajdács (Author), Che Suraya Zin (Author), Norny Syafinaz Binti Abd Rahman (Author), Syed Imran Ahmed (Author), Shazia Qasim Jamshed (Author)
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Published:	MDPI AG, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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