Volume 10, Number 3, March 2004

Antibiotic Selection Pressure and Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes

Werner C. Albrich,* Dominique L. Monnet,† and Stephan Harbarth‡
*Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark; and ‡University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Figure 1. Total antibiotic use in the outpatient setting (vertical axis) versus prevalence of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (horizontal axis) in 20 industrialized countries. A regression line was fitted with 95% confidence bands (r = 0.75; p < 0.001).

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