Epidemiological Interpretation of Studies Examining the Effect of Antibiotic Usage on Resistance
Open Access
- 1 April 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Clinical Microbiology Reviews
- Vol. 26 (2), 289-307
- https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00001-13
Abstract
SUMMARY Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing clinical problem and public health threat. Antibiotic use is a known risk factor for the emergence of antibiotic resistance, but demonstrating the causal link between antibiotic use and resistance is challenging. This review describes different study designs for assessing the association between antibiotic use and resistance and discusses strengths and limitations of each. Approaches to measuring antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance are presented. Important methodological issues such as confounding, establishing temporality, and control group selection are examined.This publication has 184 references indexed in Scilit:
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