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   ¹ , RN, MPH ;   Stephan Harbarth   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Hanan H Balkhy   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   David L Paterson   ¹ , MBBS, PhD ;   Rihab Abdalazez Hasanain   ⁸ , BSc, MA (Hons), PhD Candidate

¹ The University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Herston QLD 4029, Australia

² King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control, and GCC Center for Infection Control, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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

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

⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia

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

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