GPs should reduce antibiotic use with alternative treatments

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Michael Nissen, director of infectious diseases (theniss@mailbox.uq.edu.au),
Chris Del Mar, professor

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland, Royal Children's Hospital-Brisbane, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia
Centre for General Practice, University of Queensland Medical School, Herston, Queensland 4006

EDITOR—Increasing evidence accumulating from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews suggests that the benefits of antibiotics in upper respiratory tract illnesses in childhood are modest. Nasrin et al have shown that the use of antibiotics in such cases increases the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in the children.1 Their study provides yet more urgency to reduce the use of antibiotics in general practice for acute …