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ReviewMicroorganisms2025

Antibiotic Use in Livestock Farming: A Driver of Multidrug Resistance?

Andreas Matheou, Ayah Abousetta, Aphrodite Persephone Pascoe, Demosthenis Papakostopoulos, Loukas Charalambous, Stelios Panagi, Stavros Panagiotou, Andreas Yiallouris, Charalampos Filippou, Elizabeth O Johnson

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Review in Microorganisms, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline 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

10 authors.

Andreas MatheouSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.ORCID 0009-0008-0048-8911
Ayah AbousettaSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.
Aphrodite Persephone PascoeSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.
Demosthenis PapakostopoulosSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.
Loukas CharalambousSchool of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0009-7590-5107
Stelios PanagiSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.ORCID 0009-0004-0831-3121
Stavros PanagiotouDivision of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9972-5068
Andreas YiallourisSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0003-4286-9284
Charalampos FilippouSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-9324-1641
Elizabeth O JohnsonSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-0006-5766

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a pressing and intensifying global health crisis, significantly exacerbated by the inappropriate utilization and excessive application of antibiotics in livestock agriculture. The excessive use of antibiotics, including prophylactic and metaphylactic administration as well as growth-promotion applications, exacerbates selective pressures, fostering the proliferation of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains. Pathogens such as

Indexed as

antibiotic misuse in farmingantibiotic resistance mechanismsantimicrobial resistancemultidrug resistance in livestockOne Health frameworkzoonotic pathogenszoonotic transmission of AMR bacteria

Identifiers

PMID40284616
PMCPMC12029767

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