Antibiotic use among COVID-19 patients in Hong Kong, January 2018 to March 2021

Kin On Kwok1, Wan In Wei2, Bosco Hon Ming Ma3

  • 1JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.

The Journal of Infection
|February 20, 2022
PubMed
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