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Review
. 2009 Feb 17;180(4):416-21.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.080626.

Antibiotic use and population ecology: how you can reduce your "resistance footprint"

David M Patrick  1 , James Hutchinson
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Antibiotic use and population ecology: how you can reduce your "resistance footprint"

David M Patrick et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: Fluoroquinolone use and correlation to ciprofloxacin resistance among uropathogens in British Columbia. Sources of data: PharmaNet and BC Biomedical Laboratories. Fluoroquinolone use was strongly associated with ciprofloxacin resistance for Klebsiella pneumoniae (Spearman rank test, p = 0.027), Escherichia coli (p < 0.001) and Proteus mirabilis (p < 0.001).
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