Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
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The importance of a One Health approach to preventing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotic resistance is a continuing and growing problem. Antibiotic resistance causes increased deaths, complications, expenses and prolonged hospital stays. There are not likely to be many new classes of antibiotics becoming available in the next few decades. We need to take a "One Health" perspective to this problem. We need to preserve the usefulness of those antibiotics we currently have ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AEA Papers and Proceedings
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2574-0768,2574-0776
DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20201014