https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191214122540.htm

"We knew children in LMICs are sick more often, and we knew antibiotic prescription rates are high in many countries. What we did not know was how these elements translate into actual antibiotic exposure -- and the results are rather alarming," said Günther Fink, lead author of the study and head of the Household Economics and Health Systems Research unit at Swiss TPH.

The study -- the first to look at total antibiotic prescribing in children under the age of five in LMICs -- will be published on 13 December in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.