Effect of general practice characteristics and antibiotic prescribing on Escherichia coli antibiotic non-susceptibility in the West Midlands region of England: a 4 year ecological study
Author(s) -
Dean Ironmonger,
Obaghe Edeghere,
Neville Q. Verlander,
Savita Gossain,
Susan Hopkins,
Bridget Hilton,
Peter M. Hawkey
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkx465
Subject(s) - antibiotics , escherichia coli , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , ecology , biology , genetics , gene
To assess the effect of general practice characteristics and antibiotic prescribing on the number of non-susceptible Escherichia coli isolated from urine specimens submitted from community settings, we undertook an ecological study of the general practice population in the West Midlands.
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