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Comment
. 2019 May 3:8:e47124.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.47124.

Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Scott W Olesen  1 , Marc Lipsitch  1   2   3 , Yonatan H Grad  1   4
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Comment

Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Scott W Olesen et al. Elife. .

Abstract

We are writing to reply to the comment by Pouwels et al., 2019 about our recent study (Olesen et al., 2018) on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance.

Keywords: antibiotic prescribing; antibiotic resistance; epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; microbiology; none; reverse causality.

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Conflict of interest statement

SO, ML, YG No competing interests declared

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    1. Olesen SW, Barnett ML, MacFadden DR, Brownstein JS, Hernández-Díaz S, Lipsitch M, Grad YH. The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance. eLife. 2018;7:e39435. doi: 10.7554/eLife.39435. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Pouwels KB, Butler CC, Robotham JV. Comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance. eLife. 2019;8:e46561. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46561. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Simpson SA, Wood F, Butler CC. General practitioners' perceptions of antimicrobial resistance: a qualitative study. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2007;59:292–296. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkl467. - DOI - PubMed

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