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European Antibiotic Use on the Increase

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Increase in Antibiotic Use from 1980 to 1991

England - 45.8%

France - 65%

Germany (West) - 78%

--------------------------------------- Davey PG, Bax RP, Newey J, Reeves D, Rutherford D, Slack R, Warren RE, Watt B, Wilson J. Growth in the use of antibiotics in the community of England and Scotland in 1980-93. BMJ 1996;312:613.

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August 1996
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