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ArticlePLoS medicine2018

Surveillance of antimicrobial consumption in animal production sectors of low- and middle-income countries: Optimizing use and addressing antimicrobial resistance.

Daniel Schar, Angkana Sommanustweechai, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel ScharU.S. Agency for International Development, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-8751-325X
Angkana SommanustweechaiInternational Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ramanan LaxminarayanCenter for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington DC, United States of America.
Viroj TangcharoensathienInternational Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a policy forum, Daniel Schar and colleagues discuss the need for surveillance of antimicrobial consumption in animals in low- and middle-income countries and propose the establishment of antimicrobial consumption monitoring systems.

Indexed as

Animal HusbandryEnvironmental MonitoringMeatAnimal DiseasesAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug Resistance, MicrobialDrug UtilizationFood ContaminationHumansVeterinary DrugsAnti-Bacterial AgentsVeterinary Drugs

Identifiers

PMID29494582
PMCPMC5832183

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