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. 2018 Dec 4;115(49):E11433-E11435.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817182115. Epub 2018 Nov 13.

Reply to Charra et al.: Global longitudinal assessment of 2019 changes in defined daily doses

Eili Y Klein^{1

2

3}, Katie K Tseng⁴, Simon A Levin^{5

6

7}, Herman Goossens⁸, Ramanan Laxminarayan^{4

6

9}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, DC 20005; klein@cddep.org.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21209.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205.
⁴ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, DC 20005.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
⁶ Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
⁷ Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
⁹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104.

PMID: 30425175
PMCID: PMC6298110
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817182115

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Reply to Charra et al.: Global longitudinal assessment of 2019 changes in defined daily doses

Eili Y Klein et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018.

. 2018 Dec 4;115(49):E11433-E11435.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817182115. Epub 2018 Nov 13.

Authors

Eili Y Klein^{1

2

3}, Katie K Tseng⁴, Simon A Levin^{5

6

7}, Herman Goossens⁸, Ramanan Laxminarayan^{4

6

9}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, DC 20005; klein@cddep.org.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21209.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205.
⁴ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, DC 20005.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
⁶ Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
⁷ Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
⁹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104.

PMID: 30425175
PMCID: PMC6298110
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817182115

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

**Fig. 1.**
Global antibiotic consumption by country, 2015. Antibiotic consumption rate by country for 2015 in DIDs using modified DDD values for 2018 and 2019. The mean percentage decrease for countries from prior reported values (5) was −13% (SD, 5%). Data source: IQVIA MIDAS, 2000–2015, IQVIA Inc. All rights reserved (https://www.iqvia.com/solutions/commercialization/geographies/midas).

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Comment on

Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015.
Klein EY, Van Boeckel TP, Martinez EM, Pant S, Gandra S, Levin SA, Goossens H, Laxminarayan R. Klein EY, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Apr 10;115(15):E3463-E3470. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1717295115. Epub 2018 Mar 26. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 29581252 Free PMC article.
Penicillins' defined daily doses must be changed.
Charra F, Berthelot P, Bergheau F. Charra F, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Dec 4;115(49):E11432. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1816558115. Epub 2018 Nov 13. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 30425176 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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1. Charra F, Berthelot P, Bergheau F. Penicillins’ defined daily doses must be changed. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018;115:E11432. - PMC - PubMed
1. Klein EY, et al. Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018;115:E3463–E3470. - PMC - PubMed

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