Antibiotic consumption in 14 countries of sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from a retrospective analysis

• Yvon de Jong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yvon de Jong, Rachit Singhal

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IQVIA, Centurion, South Africa and Dubai, UAE

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• Rachit Singhal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yvon de Jong, Rachit Singhal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IQVIA, Centurion, South Africa and Dubai, UAE

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• Yewande Alimi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Surveillance and Disease Intelligence Division, African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2984-7817

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• Geetanjali Kapoor,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation One Health Trust, Washington, DC, WA, United States of America,

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• Abdourahmane Sow,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation West Africa Health Organization, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Martin Matu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eastern, Central and Southern African Health Community, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Edwin Shumba,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Society for laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Manuel Moreira,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD), Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4563-5873

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• Deepak Batra,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IQVIA, Centurion, South Africa and Dubai, UAE

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• Ramanan Laxminarayan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation One Health Trust, Washington, DC, WA, United States of America,

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• Pascale Ondoa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pondoa2@hotmail.fr

  Affiliations African Society for laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2700-9000

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• for the MAAP study group

  ¶Membership of the MAAP study group is provided in the Acknowledgements.

  Affiliation IQVIA, Centurion, South Africa and Dubai, UAE

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