Vacunas infantiles y uso de antibióticos en países de ingresos bajos y medios

Joseph A Lewnard1,2,3, Nathan C Lo4, Nimalan Arinaminpathy5

  • 1Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. jlewnard@berkeley.edu.

Nature
|May 8, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Las vacunas reducen significativamente el uso de antibióticos en niños pequeños en países de bajos ingresos al prevenir infecciones. Las vacunas contra el neumococo y el rotavirus son fundamentales para combatir la resistencia a los antimicrobianos y reducir los episodios de enfermedad.

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