COVID-19: don't neglect antimicrobial stewardship principles!

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: benedikt.huttner@hcuge.ch.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.
⁴ Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, équipe MICS, F-54000, Nancy, France; Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Infectious Diseases Department, F-54000 Nancy, France.
⁵ Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases; Intensive Care Department, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

B D Huttner et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;26(7):808-810.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.024. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: benedikt.huttner@hcuge.ch.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.
⁴ Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, équipe MICS, F-54000, Nancy, France; Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Infectious Diseases Department, F-54000 Nancy, France.
⁵ Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases; Intensive Care Department, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Conflict of interest statement

Transparency declaration The authors declare no conflicts of interest. No external funding was received for this communication.

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