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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2009 64(3):670; doi:10.1093/jac/dkp223
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The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease
M. P. Battin, L. P. Francis, J. A. Jacobson and C. B. Smith
Oxford University Press,
New York, USA, 2009.
ISBN 978-0-19-533583-5, £15.99, 576 pp.

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More than 10 years ago my partners and I drew up a scheme for the cost–benefit model of empirical antibiotic treatment in patients with moderate to severe infections. We knew that about one-third of patients are given inappropriate treatment, with deleterious effects, and that empirical coverage could be increased by prescribing very broad-spectrum antibiotics. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Leonard Leibovici

Department of Medicine E,
Beilinson Hospital,
Rabin Medical Center,
Petah-Tiqva,
Israel

E-mail: leibovic@post.tau.ac.il


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