LONDON, England, April 3 -- City St George's, University of London issued the following news:

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Use of last-resort antibiotics increased during COVID-19 pandemic

A new study by researchers from City St George's, University of London and the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research, has found that prescriptions of last-resort antibiotics increased across multiple countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.