Antibiotic Resistance

CDC Survey Shows Doctors Are Getting the Message: Go Easy on Antibiotics

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 24th, 2000

The use of antibiotics to treat children with respiratory diseases has declined steadily in recent years, according to results of a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"The decreased use of antibiotics coincides with increased awareness that many bacteria and other disease-causing organisms are developing resistance to antibiotics. Our survey suggests that physicians are getting the message that the overuse of antibiotics can be harmful," said Linda F. McCaig, MPH, survey statistician, National Centers for Health Statistics of the CDC, at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, held September...

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