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ReviewMicrobiologyOpen2020

The incidence of antibiotic resistance within and beyond the agricultural ecosystem: A concern for public health.

Chidozie D Iwu, Lise Korsten, Anthony I Okoh

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Review in MicrobiologyOpen, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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91citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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31 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

3 authors.

Chidozie D IwuSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5721-6425
Lise KorstenDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Anthony I OkohSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The agricultural ecosystem creates a platform for the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance, which is promoted by the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the veterinary, agricultural, and medical sectors. This results in the selective pressure for the intrinsic and extrinsic development of the antimicrobial resistance phenomenon, especially within the aquaculture-animal-manure-soil-water-plant nexus. The existence of antimicrobial resistance in the environment has been well documented in the literature. However, the possible transmission routes of antimicrobial agents, their resistance genes, and naturally selected antibiotic-resistant bacteria within and between the various niches of the agricultural environment and humans remain poorly understood. This study, therefore, outlines an overview of the discovery and development of commonly used antibiotics; the timeline of resistance development; transmission routes of antimicrobial resistance in the agro-ecosystem; detection methods of environmental antimicrobial resistance determinants; factors involved in the evolution and transmission of antibiotic resistance in the environment and the agro-ecosystem; and possible ways to curtail the menace of antimicrobial resistance.

Indexed as

AgricultureDrug Resistance, MicrobialEcosystemPublic HealthAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAquacultureDrug Resistance, BacterialDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialFarmsFood ChainFood SafetyHumansLivestockManureSoilAnti-Bacterial AgentsManureSoilagro-ecosystemantibiotic resistanceenvironmentfood safetypublic health

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PMID32710495
PMCPMC7520999

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