"Antibiotics are not automatic anymore" -- the French national campaign to cut antibiotic overuse

Huttner, Benedikt; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000080

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"Antibiotics are not automatic anymore" -- the French national campaign to cut antibiotic overuse

ContributorsHuttner, Benedikt

; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen

Published inPLoS medicine, vol. 6, no. 6, e1000080

Publication date2009

Abstract

Benedikt Huttner and Stephan Harbarth discuss the implications of a new study that examined the impact of a national campaign in France to reduce antibiotic overuse.

Keywords

Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use
Drug Prescriptions
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
France
Health Policy/economics
Humans
Physician's Practice Patterns
Public Health/economics

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research groups

Résistance aux antibiotiques (866)

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HUTTNER, Benedikt, HARBARTH, Stéphan Juergen. ‘Antibiotics are not automatic anymore’ -- the French national campaign to cut antibiotic overuse. In: PLoS medicine, 2009, vol. 6, n° 6, p. e1000080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000080

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PID : unige:19542
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000080
PMID : 19492081
PMCID : PMC2683568

Additional URL for this publicationhttps://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000080

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"Antibiotics are not automatic anymore" -- the French national campaign to cut antibiotic overuse

Benedikt Huttner and Stephan Harbarth discuss the implications of a new study that examined the impact of a national campaign in France to reduce antibiotic overuse.

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