Ann Lisa Arulappen1,2*
Amer Hayat Khan1*
Syed Shahzad Hasan3
Sabariah Noor Harun1Ting Soo Chow4Mahmood Basil A. Al-Rawi5
Wajid Syed6- 1Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University Science Malaysia, Georgetown, Malaysia
- 2Department of Pharmacy, Penang Hospital, Ministry of Health, George, Town, Malaysia
- 3Department of Pharmacy, School of Applied Science, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
- 4Department of Medicine, Penang Hospital, Ministry of Health, Georgetown, Malaysia
- 5Department of Optometry, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 6Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A Correction on
The correlation between antibiotic usage and antibiotic resistance: a 3-year retrospective study
By Arulappen AL, Khan AH, Hasan SS, Harun SN, Chow TS, Al-Rawi MBA and Syed W (2025). Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1608921. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1608921
Author Mahmood Basil A. Al-Rawi was erroneously assigned to affiliation 1. This affiliation has now been removed for author Mahmood Basil A. Al-Rawi.
The original version of this article has been updated.
In the published article, there was an error in the Acknowledgement statement. “All the authors would like to express their gratitude to the Director General of Health for granting permission to publish this article and to those who have contributed directly and indirectly to completing this study. The authors of this study extend their appreciation to the Researchers Supporting Project (Project number RSP2025R378), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia”. The correct Acknowledgement statement appears below.
“All the authors would like to express their gratitude to the Director General of Health for granting permission to publish this article and to those who have contributed directly and indirectly to completing this study. The authors of this study extend their appreciation to the Researchers Supporting Project (ORF-2025-378), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.”
The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: antimicrobial resistance, antibiogram, gram positive, gram negative, prevalence, antibiotic usage
Citation: Arulappen AL, Khan AH, Hasan SS, Harun SN, Chow TS, Al-Rawi MBA and Syed W (2025) Correction: The correlation between antibiotic usage and antibiotic resistance: a 3-year retrospective study. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1678273. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1678273
Received: 07 August 2025; Accepted: 07 August 2025;
Published: 22 August 2025.
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