Research letters / The Lancet 16oct99 v.354, n.9187
Yung-Ching Liu, Wen-Kuei Huang, Tsi-Shu Huang, Calvin M Kunin
Taiwan has high prevalence of antibiotic resistant, community-acquired respiratory pathogens. We investigated whether there was a high frequency of antibiotic use in the community. Antimicrobial activity in urine was detected in 55·2% of 1182 patients on arrival at an emergency department, 25·1% of 203 internal medicine out-patients, 7·6% of 471 high school students, and 7·4% of 202 people at a centre for senior citizens.
Sections of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (Y C Liu MD, W K Huang MT, T S Huang MT); and Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210, Ohio, USA (C M Kunin MD)
Correspondence to: Dr Calvin M Kunin (e-mail:ckunin@columbus.rr.com)
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