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U.S. Efforts to Curb Antibiotic Resistance — Are We Saving Lives?

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  • Sameer S. Kadri, M.D.,
  • and Helen W. Boucher, M.D.

Demonstrating that large-scale efforts to control antibiotic resistance have saved lives would help secure ongoing and expanded funding and support in this area. But data causally linking such efforts to the burden of antibiotic resistance and to outcomes are lacking.

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The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent any position or policy of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or the U.S. government.

Author Affiliations

From the Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD (S.S.K.), and the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston (H.W.B.).

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