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letter . 2021 Mar 17:ciab241. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab241
National Changes in Outpatient Systemic Antibiotic Use During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Australia
Janet K Sluggett
1,2,3,✉, Yen H Dinh
4, Steven L Wesselingh
2,5, Maria C Inacio
1,2, Gillian E Caughey
1,2
Janet K Sluggett
1
UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Healthy Ageing Research Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
3
Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Yen H Dinh
4
UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Steven L Wesselingh
2
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Healthy Ageing Research Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
5
The SAHMRI Microbiome Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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Maria C Inacio
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UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Healthy Ageing Research Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Gillian E Caughey
1
UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Healthy Ageing Research Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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1
UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Healthy Ageing Research Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
3
Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
4
UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
5
The SAHMRI Microbiome Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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Corresponding author: Dr Janet K Sluggett, Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia, UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia , Email: janet.sluggett@unisa.edu.au, Telephone: +61 8 8128 4999
Received 2021 Mar 9.
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