Penicillin allergy as an instrumental variable for estimating antibiotic effects on resistance

Abstract Antibiotic resistance is influenced by prior antibiotic use, but precise causal estimates are limited. This study uses penicillin allergy as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of antibiotics on resistance. A retrospective cohort of 36,351 individuals with E. coli po...

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Main Authors: Yaki Saciuk, Daniel Nevo, Michal Chowers, Uri Obolski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56287-x
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