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Week 7: Reducing antibiotic use

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This figure consists of an infographic from the O’Neill Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (2016). It illustrates how rapid diagnostics would reduce unnecessary prescription. The following data is presented; Out of 40 million people who get given antibiotics for respiratory issues, annually in the US: 27 million get antibiotics unnecessarily, 13 million who need antibiotics get them.

 4 Rapid infection diagnostics