Background Greater use of antibiotics during the past 50 years has exerted selective
pressure on susceptible bacteria and may have favoured the survival of resistant strains …

Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected …

The worldwide increase in resistance to antimicrobial drugs has made reducing the
unnecessary use of antibiotics a public health priority. There have been campaigns in many …

Background The ongoing outbreak of the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
poses a challenge for public health laboratories as virus isolates are unavailable while there …

The methodology for EPOS2012 has been the same as for the other two productions.
Leaders in the field were invited to critically appraise the literature and write a report on a …

Background The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria poses a substantial threat to
morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to its large public health and societal implications …

The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many
levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate …

Background Resistance to antibiotics is a major public-health problem and antibiotic use is
being increasingly recognised as the main selective pressure driving this resistance. Our …

Tracking antibiotic consumption patterns over time and across countries could inform
policies to optimize antibiotic prescribing and minimize antibiotic resistance, such as setting …

Background The efficacy of interleukin-6 receptor antagonists in critically ill patients with
coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is unclear. Methods We evaluated tocilizumab and …