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USING TWITTER ADVANCED SEARCH TO EXPLORE THE INTEREST IN ANTIBIOGRAM

Nehad J Ahmed*

Introduction: Antibiogram summarizes the antimicrobial susceptibilities of bacterial isolates that are submitted to the microbiology laboratory department periodically. Public health researchers have started to use social media platforms such as Twitter in their research. This study aims to explore the interest in Antibiogram using Twitter advanced search. Methodology: Twitter Advanced Search was used to find the number of tweets using the keyword "antibiogram" in 2017 and 2018. The second part include using word frequency counter to find the most frequent words in all tweets in 2017 and 2018.Results and Discussion: There were only 98 tweets in 2017, and only 97 tweets in 2018. The most frequent word was antibiogram, followed by antibiotic or antimicrobial, ASP or stewardship program and resistant or resistance. Conclusion: The interest of health care providers in Antibiogram is not sufficient as the results showed. These results demonstrate the need for more lectures, conferences and more activities to increase the knowledge and the awareness of health care providers about Antibiogram. Keywords: Antibiogram, Twitter, Interest.

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