An assessment of the impact of antibiotic resistance in different bacterial species and of the contribution of animal sources to resistance in human infections

Robin J. Bywater and Mark W. Casewell

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For each bacterial species, the mean scores from questions (i) and (ii) were multiplied to give the ‘resistance impact’ of that species. The resistance impacts of all the species were added to give the ‘total impact of resistance’.