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      Resistance diagnosis and the changing epidemiology of antibiotic resistance.

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          Widespread adoption of point-of-care resistance diagnostics (POCRD) reduces ineffective antibiotic use but could increase overall antibiotic use. Indeed, in the context of a standard susceptible-infected epidemiological model with a single antibiotic, POCRD accelerates the rise of resistance in the disease-causing bacterial population. When multiple antibiotics are available, however, POCRD may slow the rise of resistance even as more patients receive antibiotic treatment, belying the conventional wisdom that antibiotics are "exhaustible resources" whose increased use necessarily promotes the rise of resistance.

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          Journal
          Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.
          Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
          Wiley
          1749-6632
          0077-8923
          January 2017
          : 1388
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Fuqua School of Business and Economics Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
          Article
          10.1111/nyas.13300
          28134444
          e8cf658b-e4f9-468b-98ab-3e238aba02b0
          History

          antibiotic resistance,economic epidemiology,point-of-care diagnosis,resistance-targeted treatment

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