Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Scott W Olesen; Marc Lipsitch; Yonatan H Grad

doi:10.7554/eLife.47124

Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Elife. 2019 May 3:8:e47124. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47124.

Authors

Scott W Olesen¹, Marc Lipsitch^{1

2

3}, Yonatan H Grad^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
³ Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.

Abstract

We are writing to reply to the comment by Pouwels et al., 2019 about our recent study (Olesen et al., 2018) on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance.

Keywords: antibiotic prescribing; antibiotic resistance; epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; microbiology; none; reverse causality.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Comment

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents*
Drug Resistance, Microbial

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Grants and funding

U54GM088558/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States