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Medical prescribing and antibiotic resistance: A game-theoretic analysis of a potentially catastrophic social dilemma

The availability of antibiotics presents medical practitioners with a prescribing dilemma. On the one hand, antibiotics provide a safe and effective treatment option for patients with bacterial infections, but at a population level, over-prescription reduces their effectiveness by facilitating the e...

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Autores principales: Colman, Andrew M., Krockow, Eva M., Chattoe-Brown, Edmund, Tarrant, Carolyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31002685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215480