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ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2019

Critically important antibiotics: criteria and approaches for measuring and reducing their use in food animal agriculture.

H Morgan Scott, Gary Acuff, Gilles Bergeron, Megan W Bourassa, Jason Gill, David W Graham, Laura H Kahn, Paul S Morley, Matthew Jude Salois, Shabbir Simjee and 4 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
72citing papers in PubMed
14.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 139 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

14 authors at 11 institutions in 2 countries.

H Morgan ScottDepartment of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-0538-5961
Gary AcuffDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Gilles BergeronThe New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York.
Megan W BourassaThe New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York.
Jason GillDepartment of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
David W GrahamSchool of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Laura H KahnWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Paul S MorleyTexas A&M University, Canyon, Texas, USA.
Matthew Jude SaloisAmerican Veterinary Medical Association, Schaumburg, Illinois.
Shabbir SimjeeElanco Animal Health, Basingstoke, UK.
Randall S SingerDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.ORCID 0000-0002-5461-9330
Tara C SmithCollege of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.ORCID 0000-0003-3747-1116
Carina StorrsIndependent Contractor, New York, New York.
Thomas E WittumCollege of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Texas A&M University · USNew York Academy of Sciences · USAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · USBasingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital · GBIndependent Sector · USKent State University · USNewcastle University · GBThe Ohio State University · USUniversity of Minnesota · USWest Texas A&M University · USWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · US

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P028195/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, increasing acquired antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria presents an urgent challenge to human and animal health. As a result, significant efforts, such as the One Health Initiative, are underway to curtail and optimize the use of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine in all applications, including food animal production. This review discusses the rationale behind multiple and competing "critically important antimicrobial" lists and their contexts as created by international, regional, and national organizations; identifies discrepancies among these lists; and describes issues surrounding risk management recommendations that have been made by regulatory organizations on the use of antibiotics in food animal production. A more harmonized approach to defining criticality in its various contexts (e.g., for human versus animal health, enteric diseases versus other systemic infections, and direct versus indirect selection of resistance) is needed in order to identify shared contextual features, aid in their translation into risk management, and identify the best ways to maintain the health of food animals, all while keeping in mind the wider risks of antimicrobial resistance, environmental impacts, and animal welfare considerations.

Indexed as

Animal HusbandryAnimals, DomesticMeatAnimalsAnimal WelfareAnti-Bacterial AgentsFood SafetyInternationalityRisk ManagementUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationAnti-Bacterial Agentsanimal agricultureantimicrobial resistanceantimicrobialscritically important antimicrobials

Identifiers

PMID30924540
PMCPMC6850619
OpenAlexW2929934094

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