Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015.
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...Given the urgency of the threat posed by rising AMR levels (2), and in the absence of global, publicly funded, harmonized surveillance data on antibiotic use, alternative sources of data on antibiotic use must be used to track antibiotic consumption patterns across countries....
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...However, although data on the burden of resistant bacterial infections is limited, both in HICs and especially in LMICs (2), the magnitude of the challenge posed by rising antibiotic resistance levels has become increasingly visible....
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...The association between antibiotic consumption and resistance is well documented across spatial and temporal scales at individual hospitals (5), nursing homes (6), primary care facilities (7), and communities (8), as well as across countries (9)....
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...As with climate change, there may be an unknown tipping point (47), and this could herald a future without effective antibiotics....
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