Antibiotic use during the first 6 months of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran: A large-scale multi-centre study.
Mohammadreza SalehiHossein KhaliliArash SeifiHamidreza DavoudiIlad Alavi DarazamZahra Jahangard-RafsanjaniEsmaeil MohammadnejadBehrooz HeydariSaeedReza Jamali Moghadam SiahkalyPayam TabarsiSaeed KalantariSeyed Ali Dehghan MenshadiFarhang BabamahmoodiFarzin KhorvashMohammad Ali DavarpanahRasool SoltaniMojtaba Hedayat YaghoobiSeyed Alireza Mosavi AnariJavad KhodadadiAmir AliramezaniSedigheh HantooshzadehHamid Reza NaderiMahboobeh HajiabdolbaghiSepideh ElyasiDena FirouzabadiHamideh Abbaspour KasgariSoheil RoshanzamiriSholeh EbrahimpourPublished in: Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics (2022)
In this study, widespread antibiotic use was detected in the absence of the confirmed bacterial coinfection in COVID-19 patients. This over-consumption of broad-spectrum antibiotics may be associated with increased mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, which can be an alarming finding.