Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Scott W Olesen; Marc Lipsitch; Yonatan H Grad

doi:10.7554/eLife.47124

eLife (May 2019)

Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

Scott W Olesen,
Marc Lipsitch,
Yonatan H Grad

Affiliations

Scott W Olesen: ORCiD; Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Marc Lipsitch: ORCiD; Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States; Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Yonatan H Grad: ORCiD; Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States; Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47124
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

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We are writing to reply to the comment by Pouwels et al., 2019 about our recent study (Olesen et al., 2018) on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance.

Published in eLife

ISSN: 2050-084X (Online)
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://elifesciences.org

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