Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial use presents a dilemma, say Foster and Grundmann. Appropriate use can benefit individual patients but carries a cost to society by selecting for resistant strains that are difficult to treat.

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Autores principales: Foster, Kevin R, Grundmann, Hajo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
Materias:
Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16398572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030029
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spelling pubmed-13252652006-03-06 Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance Foster, Kevin R Grundmann, Hajo PLoS Med Policy Forum Antimicrobial use presents a dilemma, say Foster and Grundmann. Appropriate use can benefit individual patients but carries a cost to society by selecting for resistant strains that are difficult to treat. Public Library of Science 2006-02 2006-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1325265/ /pubmed/16398572 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030029 Text en © 2006 Foster and Grundmann http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title_full Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title_fullStr Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title_full_unstemmed Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title_short Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance
title_sort do we need to put society first? the potential for tragedy in antimicrobial resistance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16398572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030029
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