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
An incorrect Funding statement was provided. The correct funder is “Ongoing Research Funding Program”. The correct funding statement reads:
“This work was funded by the Ongoing Research Funding Program (ORF-2025-378), King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia”.
The original version of this article has been updated.
There was an error in the Acknowledgments, the correct statement reads:
“All the authors would like to express their gratitude to the Director General of Health for granting permission to publish this article. The authors of this study extend their appreciation to the Ongoing Research Funding Program (ORF-2025-378), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for their encouragement and assistance”.
The original version of this 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. 15:1692095. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1692095
Received: 25 August 2025; Accepted: 26 August 2025;
Published: 08 September 2025.
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