Per capita antibiotic consumption: how does a North American jurisdiction compare with Europe?
Patrick DM;Marra F;Hutchinson J;Monnet DL;Ng H;Bowie WR;;
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2004Vol. 39pp. -
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Abstract
Antibiotic consumption in populations affects the emergence of resistant organisms. We compared 1996-2000 trends in consumption in British Columbia, Canada, with those in Europe. Prescription data from the British Columbia PharmaNet database were converted into SAS files and classified using the Ana …