Sarah Nasser Alshehri , Salwah Mohammed Hussein Qaysi , Raneem Mousa Alqasem , Wejdan Saleh Aldrees , Abdulrahman Hassan Jaafari , Naif Ali Alayfan, Saad Saud Saad Alotaibi , Menwer Abdullah Menwer Alotaibi , Saad Saleh Almogare , Modhi Saleh Almuryidi , Abdulaziz Saad Hasan Alzahrani , Saud Mohammad Hasan Alshehri , Mansour Musaad T AlSaluli , Mohammed Abdulla H Alghamdi , Hussain Saeed H Alghamdi , Khalid Abdulla Khalid Alghamdi , Abdulrahman Mosaid Alolyyan , Ahmad Yousef Aljuraifani , Hamad Mohammad H Aloraini , Muath Dawood S Alessa , Yazeed Alayed
Our aim is to review the literature and, where appropriate, investigating subsequent antibiotic resistance in individuals prescribed antibiotics in primary care. Data sources are Observational and experimental studies identified through Medline, Embase, and Cochrane searches. Review methods Electronic searches using MeSH terms and text words identified 4373 papers. Results The review included 24 studies; 22 involved patients with symptomatic infection and two involved healthy volunteers; 19 were observational studies (of which two were prospective) and five were randomised trials. Conclusions Individuals prescribed an antibiotic in primary care for a respiratory or urinary infection develop bacterial resistance to that antibiotic.