Prospective intervention studies that restrict antibiotic consumption are needed to validate these thresholds.
The map of the results is remarkably similar to the map of antibiotic consumption.
That process has to begin with the BRICS countries, which are experiencing the highest rates of increase in antibiotic consumption.
The study also found that antibiotic consumption has flattened in the United States, compared with the five BRICS countries.
This paper investigates the determinants of regional variations in outpatient antibiotic consumption using Swiss data.
A significant reduction in overall inpatient antibiotic consumption was observed after the interventions.
While antibiotic consumption has increased by 36% in the past decade, no new classes of these drugs have been discovered since the 1980s.
Between 2011-14, there was a 6.5% rise in total antibiotic consumption (defined as doses of antibiotics per 1,000 people per day).
The findings, which identified chickens and pigs as the main contributors to antibiotic consumption, were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March.
Global use of antibiotics is surging, according to Princeton University researchers who have conducted a broad assessment of antibiotic consumption around the world.
But U.S. citizens per capita still account for far more antibiotic consumption than any other population, with a rate of more than twice that of India.
