Increasing awareness about antibiotic use and resistance: a hands-on project for high school students.

BACKGROUND: Health-promoting education is essential to foster an informed society able to make decisions about socio-scientific issues based on scientifically sustained criteria. Antibiotic resistance is currently a major public health issue. Considering that irrational antibiotic use has been assoc...

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Main Authors: Maria João Fonseca, Catarina L Santos, Patrício Costa, Leonor Lencastre, Fernando Tavares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3440366?pdf=render