2009年,Lancet又针对本文发表了一篇评论:
中国抗生素耐药---未来巨大的挑战
Antibiotic resistance in China--a major future challenge.
The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9657, Page 30, 3 January 2009
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Andreas Heddini a, Otto Cars b, Sun Qiang c, Göran Tomson d
Longde Wang and colleagues (Nov 1, p 1697)1 outline the future challenges posed by infectious diseases in the Chinese context. Infectious diseases remain a major problem in China today and Wang and colleagues provide a comprehensive review of current and emerging infectious diseases and their control. Strikingly, however, the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance is only briefly mentioned.
The situation with respect to overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in China is severe.2 Several factors are involved, including a health system with strong financial incentives for drug prescribing.3 Around 75% of patients with seasonal influenza are estimated to be prescribed antibiotics, and the rate of antibiotic prescription to inpatients is 80%.4 In a study of resistance patterns of several common bacteria in China in 1999 and 2001,5 the mean prevalence of resistance among hospital-acquired infections was as high as 41% and that among community-acquired infections was 26%. China also has the world's most rapid growth rate of resistance (22% average growth in a study spanning 1994 to 2000).5
The faceless threat of antibiotic resistance is likely to be one of the greatest challenges to global health during the 21st century, with a direct effect on health indicators in low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries. It is positive that China's new health system reform suggests a pharmaceutical policy that includes a strategy for rational drug use. What happens in China matters for the world.
We declare that we have no conflict of interest.
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b Action on Antibiotic Resistance, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
c Center for Health Management and Policy, Shandong University, Jinan, China
d Division of International Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden |