Authors
Cliodna AM McNulty, Donna M Lecky, David Farrell, Patty Kostkova, Niels Adriaenssens, Tereza Koprivová Herotová, Jette Holt, Pia Touboul, Kyriakoula Merakou, Raffaella Koncan, Anna Olczak-Pienkowska, António Brito Avô, José Campos, e-Bug Working Group, Natasha Barbouni, Jiří Beneš, Carla Rodriguez Caballero, Guiseppe Cornaglia, Charles Davis, Stijn De Corte, Ed de Quincey, Pierre Dellamonica, Dimitra Gennimata, Herman Goossens, Pawel Grzesiowski, Gawesh Jawaheer, Jenny Kremastinou, Lisa Lazareck, Marianne Noer, Monika Nowakowska, Dasun Weerasinghe, Julius Weinberg, Carole Fry, Herman Goossens, Ian Fisher
Publication date
2011/6/1
Journal
Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Volume
66
Issue
suppl_5
Pages
v3-v12
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing community problem and is related to antibiotic use. If antibiotic use could be reduced, the tide of increasing resistance could be stemmed. e-Bug is a European project involving 18 European countries, partly funded by The Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO) of the European Commission. It aims to develop and disseminate across Europe a junior and senior school teaching pack and web site (hosting the lesson plans and complementary games) that teach young people about prudent antibiotic use, microbes, transmission of infection, hygiene and vaccines. The aim of e-Bug is to increase young people's understanding, through enjoyable activities, of why it is so important to use antibiotics correctly in order to control antibiotic resistance, and to have good hand and respiratory hygiene to help reduce the spread of infection. Within the senior school …
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