ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2021
Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.
Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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
- Single-dose azithromycin for infant growth in Burkina Faso: Prespecified secondary anthropometric outcomes from a randomized controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2024Trial
- Neonatal Azithromycin Administration and Growth during Infancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Trial
- Gut Microbiome among Children with Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Azithromycin versus Amoxicillin.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Trial
- Effect of Neonatal Azithromycin on All-Cause and Cause-Specific Infant Mortality: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2022Trial
- Gut Resistome after Antibiotics among Children with Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2022Trial
- Antimicrobial resistance and toxin profiles of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in children under five years old with diarrhoea in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: a sentinel surveillance study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Indirect benefits of seasonal malaria chemoprevention for non-malarial pediatric infections and routine antibiotic use in real-world programmatic settings: a pre-post study using positive and negative controls.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Exploring Antibiotic Use in the Community: A Household-Based Survey Using the Drug Bag Method in Rural Burkina Faso.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Narrative Review of Recent Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Ambulatory Care in Tanzania: Findings and Implications.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- A Narrative Review of Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Primary Care Settings in South Africa and Potential Ways Forward to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessment of Prescribing Practices and Factors Related to Antibiotic Prescribing in Community Pharmacies.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Antimicrobial Stewardship in Tropical Infectious Diseases: Focusing on Dengue and Malaria.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
- Assessing antibiotic utilization among pediatric patients in Gaborone, Botswana.SAGE open medicine · 2022Article
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12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Of 61 355 visits by children <5 years old to 48 government-run primary healthcare facilities in Nouna District, Burkina Faso, 30 975 had an antibiotic prescribed (58% for pneumonia diagnoses). A minority of prescriptions were for diagnoses not requiring antibiotics, including malaria, nonbloody diarrhea, and cough without pneumonia.
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