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Use antimicrobials wisely

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  • Peter S. Jørgensen

    (Peter S. Jørgensen is a researcher at the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.)

  • Didier Wernli

    (Didier Wernli is a senior research associate at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.)

  • Scott P. Carroll

    (University of California, Davis, USA; and at the Institute for Contemporary Evolution, Davis, California, USA.
    and at the Institute for Contemporary Evolution, Davis, California, USA.)

  • Robert R. Dunn

    (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; and at the Center for Macroecology and Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    and at the Center for Macroecology and Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.)

  • Stephan Harbarth

    (Stephan Harbarth is associate professor in the Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.)

  • Simon A. Levin

    (Simon A. Levin is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; and university fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA; and at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.
    and university fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA)

  • Anthony D. So

    (Anthony D. So is director of the Strategic Policy Program at ReAct — Action on Antibiotic Resistance, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.)

  • Maja Schlüter

    (Maja Schlüter is associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.)

  • Ramanan Laxminarayan

    (Ramanan Laxminarayan is a senior research scholar at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; Policy, Washington DC, USA.
    and director at Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics &)

Abstract

The United Nations must reframe action on antimicrobial resistance as the defence of a common resource, argue Peter S. Jørgensen, Didier Wernli and colleagues.

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  • Peter S. Jørgensen & Didier Wernli & Scott P. Carroll & Robert R. Dunn & Stephan Harbarth & Simon A. Levin & Anthony D. So & Maja Schlüter & Ramanan Laxminarayan, 2016. "Use antimicrobials wisely," Nature, Nature, vol. 537(7619), pages 159-161, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:537:y:2016:i:7619:d:10.1038_537159a
    DOI: 10.1038/537159a
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