ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2019
Antibiotic Prescription Patterns among Children Younger than 5 Years in Nouna District, Burkina Faso.
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- National and regional challenges of antibiotic prescribing patterns in pediatric populations across Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Single-dose azithromycin for child growth in Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2021Trial
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- Macrolide and Nonmacrolide Resistance with Mass Azithromycin Distribution.The New England journal of medicine · 2020Trial
- Gut Resistome After Oral Antibiotics in Preschool Children in Burkina Faso: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Trial
- Short-term weight gain among preschool children in rural Burkina Faso: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2019Trial
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- Distance to primary care facilities and healthcare utilization for preschool children in rural northwestern Burkina Faso: results from a surveillance cohort.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Management of uncomplicated malaria among children under five years at public and private sector facilities in Mali.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Pneumococcal Carriage and Antibiotic Resistance in Children Younger than 5 Years in Nouna District, Burkina Faso.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
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Abstract
Understanding antibiotic use may help predict emergence of antimicrobial resistance. We evaluated antibiotic prescription trends in rural Burkina Faso, where little is known about antibiotic consumption. Antibiotic prescription data for 20 communities were extracted through record review in six primary health-care facilities serving the communities. The number of antibiotic prescriptions per child-year was calculated using population-based census data from the communities. A total of 1,444 antibiotic prescriptions were made from March to June 2017 among 3,401 children in the communities. The frequency of antibiotic prescription was 1.70 prescriptions per child-year (95% CI: 1.61-1.79). Penicillins were the most common (1.04 prescriptions per child-year, 95% CI: 1.01-1.06), followed by sulfonamides (0.69 prescriptions per child-year, 95% CI: 0.67-0.71) and macrolides (0.38 prescriptions per child-year, 95% CI: 0.37-0.40). Continued monitoring of antibiotic consumption in diverse settings will be important to understand the potential for emergence of antibiotic resistance.
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