Encouraging AWaRe-ness and discouraging inappropriate antibiotic use-the new 2019 Essential Medicines List becomes a global antibiotic stewardship tool

Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Dec;19(12):1278-1280. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30532-8.

EML Expert Committee and Antibiotic Working Group:
Zeba Aziz, Franco Cavalli, Elisabeth De Vries, Armando Genazzani, Monica Imi, Gregory Kearns, Gilbert Kokwaro, Gabriela J Prutsky, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Shalini Sri Ranganathan, Fatima Suleman, Worasuda Yoongthong, Stephan Harbarth, Mark Loeb, Dominik Mertz, Evelina Tacconelli, Maria V Villegas

¹ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's University of London, London, UK.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products, World Health Organization, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and APEMAC, Université de Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products, World Health Organization, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Electronic address: magrinin@who.int.

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