1/12 A question that keeps popping up: what is the impact of #COVID_19 on global bacterial #AntimicrobialResistance rates?
-A thread with links to recent papers on this topic
(please add missing resources to this thread)
3/12
CON:
"For this debate we show why, overall, COVID-19 will not result in increased AMR prevalence. But globally, changes in AMR rates will not be uniform." @CollignonPeter
https://academic.oup.com/jacamr/article/2/3/dlaa051/5872562
5/12
A viewpoint on "SARS‐CoV‐2, bacterial co‐infections, and AMR: the deadly trio in COVID‐19?" in @EmboMolMed by Dr. Bengoechea and @cggbamford

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283846/
8/12
In this study from Korea, of 6871 patients with COVID-19, 2419 (35.21%) and 536 (7.80%) were prescribed total antibiotics and anti-MRSA or anti-pseudomonal antibiotics.
Authors call for antibiotic stewardship. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604125/
11/12
Antimicrobial stewardship: a COVID casualty?
Editorial in @jhieditor
"...we must not forget that, along with the climate crisis, AMR presents an immediate and escalating threat..." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33045312/ 
12/12
in JAC:
Antimicrobial stewardship challenges and innovative initiatives in the acute hospital setting during the #COVID_19 pandemic
@BSACandJAC @AlidaFeTalento @colm_bergin

https://academic.oup.com/jac/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jac/dkaa400/5917783
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