Background Overall reduction of antibiotic use is a widely adopted public health goal. Given
evidence that consuming probiotics reduce the incidence, duration and/or severity of certain …

Antimicrobial-resistant infections claim≥ 700 000 lives each year globally. It is therefore
important that both healthcare professionals and the public know the threat antimicrobial …

The use of surface water impacted by wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents for crop
irrigation is a form of unplanned water reuse. Natural attenuation processes can buffer …

Objectives To examine variations across general practices and factors associated with
antibiotic prescribing for common infections in UK primary care to identify potential targets …

Abstract Purpose Base de Datos para la Investigación Farmacoepidemiológica en Atención
Primaria (BIFAP) is a population based database administered by the AEMPS (Spanish …

Background: Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in primary care is a public health
priority. Objectives: We hypothesized that a subset of patients account for the majority of …

Introduction Understanding patterns of antibiotic consumption is essential to ensure access
to appropriate antibiotics when needed and to minimise overuse, which can lead to …

The knowledge on the sorption behaviour of antibiotics on nanomaterials is limited,
especially regarding the reaction mechanism on the surface of carbon nanomaterials, which …

Child health has improved considerably, partly due to increased availability of appropriate
disease surveillance and treatment. Inappropriate testing and treatment may impose a risk …

Background Antibiotic usage, contact with high transmission healthcare settings as well as
changes in immune system function all vary by a patient's age and sex. Yet, most analyses …