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Implications of non-prescription antibiotic sales in China

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Kalungia, Aubrey, Godman, Brian·2019·The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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  • Non-prescription sale of antibiotics is profoundly common practice in LMICs, as demonstrated by the high prevalence of the practice identified in simulated clients and questionnaire-based surveys.

    “The non-prescription sale of antibiotics is profoundly common practice in LMICs as demonstrated by the high prevalence of the practice identified in simulated clients and questionnaire based surveys [16, 17, 22–33].”

    From No prescription? No problem: drivers of non-prescribed sale of antibiotics among community drug retail outlets in low and middle income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies (2021) · cites this paper as [16]

    The main text reports high rates of non-prescription antibiotic sales in LMICs and gives high rates from a simulated-client study in China. It does not identify questionnaire-based surveys as evidence for those prevalence figures; a survey appears only in the references. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. [2]2. O'Neill J. Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. 2014. Available at URL: https://amr- review.org/sites/default/files/AMR%20Review%20Paper%20- %20Tackling%20a%20crisis%20for%20the%20health%20and%20wealth%20of%20nations_1.pdf.

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Authors
Kalungia, A., & Godman, B.
Affiliations
  • University of Zambia (ZM)
  • Karolinska University Hospital (SE)
Corresponding author
Godman, Brian
Venue
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-12
Volume
19
Issue
12
Pages
1272-1273
ISSN
1473-3099 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2978811975
Cited by
47
References
16
Citations by year
2025: 8 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4
FWCI
5.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology › Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Keywords
antibiotic overuse, antimicrobial resistance, inappropriate antibiotic use, self-medication, low- and middle-income countries, China, public health policy
MeSH terms
Anti-Bacterial Agents, China, Commerce, Cross-Sectional Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Pharmacies

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