Antibiotics for Fever Among Children: Findings From the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India Cohorts.
Arun S KarthikeyanManikandan SrinivasanSuman KanungoBireshwar SinhaAnkita ShrivastavaKarthikeyan RamanujamSanthosh Kumar GanesanSathyapriya SubramaniamKulandaipalayam Natarajan SindhuSwathi KrishnaPrasanna SamuelWinsley RoseVenkata Raghava MohanBalaji VeeraraghavanTemsunaro Rongsen-ChandolaShanta DuttaAshish BavdekarJacob JohnGagandeep KangPublished in: The Journal of infectious diseases (2022)
In developing countries where antibiotic use is not regulated, broad-spectrum antibiotics are initiated early, and often inappropriately, in febrile illness. Frequent and inappropriate use of antibiotics may increase risk of antimicrobial resistance.