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Will Culture-Free Diagnostic and Resistance Screening Reach Brazilian Primary Care? A Perspective on Reducing Empirical Antibiotic Prescribing

2025-07-17

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Worldwide, primary care physicians frequently prescribe antibiotics empirically due to the absence of rapid, reliable tests for pathogen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility or resistance gene screening. While this practice is often necessary, it may lead to inappropriate treatments, promote antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and delay patient recovery. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), infrastr...

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Literature Corpus work: b276dca5-ba87-5f1d-b5c7-32658f0087cd
DOI: 10.1590/scielopreprints.12540

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