Community-Based Antibiotic Prescribing Attributable to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Other Common Respiratory Viruses in Young Children: A Population-Based Time-series Study of Scottish Children.
Tiffany FitzpatrickWilliam MalcolmJim McMenaminArlene ReynoldsAstrid GuttmannPia HardelidPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Nearly 14% of antibiotics prescribed to children in this study were estimated to be attributable to common viruses for which antibiotics are not recommended. A future RSV vaccine could substantially reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing among children.