@article{4d6df82c49a9479e9d3090617208896b,
title = "Prevalence of hospital antibiotic use in Argentina, 2018",
abstract = "Hospital antibiotic use in Argentina has not been described. We present results of point prevalence surveys on antibiotic use conducted in 109 Argentinian hospitals in November 2018 and submitted to the National Program of Epidemiology and Control of Hospital-Acquired Infections, and we discuss potential areas for improvement.",
author = "Norma Peralta and Camou, {Bel{\'e}n Ibarra} and Karina Leszczuk and Diego Arcidi{\'a}cono and Lerena, {Roberto Giordano} and Paula Herrera and Wanda Cornistein and Fernando Riera and Cosgrove, {Sara E.} and Valeria Fabre",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support. This survey was supported by “Programa Nacional de Epidemiolog{\'i}a y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias” and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina. Funding Information: 1Programa Nacional de Epidemiologia y Control de Infecciones Hospitalarias (VIHDA), National Institute of Epidemiology INE-ANLIS, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2Research Group Infections Associated with Health Care UFASTA-INE, FASTA University, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 3Hospital-acquired infections Prevention and Control Program, Ministry of Public Health, Salta, Argentina, 4Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Hospital Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sanatorio Allende, C{\'o}rdoba, Argentina and 6Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1017/ice.2019.243",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "40",
pages = "1301--1304",
journal = "Infection control and hospital epidemiology",
issn = "0899-823X",
publisher = "University of Chicago Press",
number = "11",
}