The Potential Role of Social Media Platforms in Community Awareness of Antibiotic Use in the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Luxury or Necessity?

Hosam Mamoon Zowawi   ^{1, 2, 3} , BSc,MSc (Hons), PhD Candidate ;   Malak Abedalthagafi   ⁴ , MD, MBA ;   Florie A Mar   ⁵ , PhD ;   Turki Almalki   ⁶ , MBBS ;   Abdullah H Kutbi   ⁶ ;   Tiffany Harris-Brown   ³ , RN, MPH ;   Stephan Harbarth   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Hanan H Balkhy   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   David L Paterson   ³ , MBBS, PhD ;   Rihab Abdalazez Hasanain   ⁸ , BSc, MA (Hons), PhD Candidate

¹ King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Riyadh, SA

² WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control, and GCC Center for Infection Control, Riyadh, SA

³ The University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Herston QLD 4029, AU

⁴ Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, MA, US

⁵ Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA, CA, US

⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, SA

⁷ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University Hospitals of Geneva, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4,, CH

⁸ School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, AU