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Antibiotic Prescribing to Kids — Down, But Still Too Much

September 1, 2011 By Maryn Leave a Comment

In the CDC’s weekly bulletin today, there’s a report: 58 percent of the antibiotic prescriptions given to kids and pre-teens during medical office visits are for conditions for which antibiotics are not necessary.

And that’s an improvement.

It’s a sign of how difficult it has become to change the trend of over-use of antibiotics in human medicine, which — along with overuse in agriculture — is one of the main drivers of the emergence of antibiotic resistance worldwide.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, antibiotics, diagnostics, Resistance, Science Blogs

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