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Prevalence of hospital antibiotic use in Argentina, 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

Norma Peralta ,
Belén Ibarra Camou ,
Karina Leszczuk ,
Diego Arcidiácono ,
Roberto Giordano Lerena ,
Paula Herrera ,
Wanda Cornistein ,
Fernando Riera ,
Sara E. Cosgrove  and
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Norma Peralta
Affiliation:
Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Belén Ibarra Camou
Affiliation:
Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Karina Leszczuk
Affiliation:
Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Diego Arcidiácono
Affiliation:
Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Roberto Giordano Lerena
Affiliation:
Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina Research Group Infections Associated with Health Care UFASTA-INE, FASTA University, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Paula Herrera
Affiliation:
Hospital-acquired infections Prevention and Control Program, Ministry of Public Health, Salta, Argentina
Wanda Cornistein
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Hospital Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fernando Riera
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sanatorio Allende, Córdoba, Argentina
Sara E. Cosgrove
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Valeria Fabre*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
*
Author for correspondence: Valeria Fabre, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Osler 425, Baltimore, MD 21287. E-mail: mfabre1@jhmi.edu
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Abstract

Hospital antibiotic use in Argentina has not been described. We present results of point prevalence surveys on antibiotic use conducted in 109 Argentinian hospitals in November 2018 and submitted to the National Program of Epidemiology and Control of Hospital-Acquired Infections, and we discuss potential areas for improvement.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 11 , November 2019 , pp. 1301 - 1304
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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