INCREASED USE OF ANTIBIOTICS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN A CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF MINAS GERAIS.

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https://doi.org/10.47820/recima21.v2i8.617

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Antimicrobianos, emergence of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in 2019, many

Abstract

With the emergence of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in 2019, many doubts and uncertainties arose about the COVID-19 disease, many of them due to the thousands of fake-News, lack of information, little scientific research to prove the consequences of what would actually happen, from whether symptoms, forms of contagion, how each organism would react to the virus, about the effectiveness of masks and social isolation, but mainly about treatments against the new coronavirus. With all these doubts, some measures were taken to try to soften and resolve the situation; the so-called "KIT-COVID" (containing medicines, among them antibiotics) and today not recommended by the Ministry of Health, was one of the controversial measures that occurred in Brazil. The recommendation of the use of drugs without scientifically proven efficacy against the symptoms of COVID-19, caused the sales of antimicrobial drugs to double in different places in the country, including the city of Nanuque, MG, as demonstrated in this study. This increase in the use of antibiotics becomes worrisome, as it increases the probability of microbial resistance, transforming common bacteria into possible superbacteria, making it necessary to use increasingly potent antibiotics.

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Author Biographies

  • Lucas Jahel de Oliveira, Centro Universitário de Caratinga.

    Graduando em bacharelado em Fármacia pelo Centro universitário de Caratinga - Campus Nanuque, MG.

  • Kêmilly Souza Silva, Centro Universitário de Caratinga.

    Graduanda em bacharelado em Farmacia pelo Centro universitário de Caratinga - Campus Nanuque, MG.

  • Ana Carolina dos Santos Gonçalves, UNEC

    Biologist, specialist in clinical analysis and microbiology, master in biology and biotechnology of microorganisms, PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology by the State University of Santa Cruz, professor at the Centro Universitário de Caratinga - UNEC - Campus Nanuque.

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Published

15/09/2021

How to Cite

INCREASED USE OF ANTIBIOTICS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN A CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF MINAS GERAIS. (2021). RECIMA21 - Revista Científica Multidisciplinar - ISSN 2675-6218, 2(8), e28617. https://doi.org/10.47820/recima21.v2i8.617