One Health: Opportunities and Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance and Stewardship
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanism and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 33622
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibiotic resistance; One Health; public health; infectious diseases; economics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a worldwide problem with a significant impact on human health, animal health, and the environment. It is currently affecting our ability to treat infections, putting at risk public health, especially the health of those living in perilous conditions. Moreover, the impact of ABR goes beyond public health, as a greater burden of infections negatively affects global and local economies.
The application of a One Health approach to research and policy on antibiotic resistance has become an imperative. Currently, the tripartite WHO–FAO–OIE is actively advocating for the integration of human, animal and environmental health when searching for solutions to the ABR problem that could be applicable to various settings. ABR researchers, policymakers and stakeholders face various challenges when applying One Health to their ABR research, as innovative methods are required in order to account for interactions within and across humans, animals and the environment. Exploring past, present, and future challenges in tackling antibiotic resistance across One Health from different perspectives is key in building successful policies to tackle this global issue.
In this Special Issue, we would like to collate evidence from interdisciplinary ABR research performed across the human–animal–environment interface. We welcome research that describes the current challenges of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic stewardship (theoretical, empirical, qualitative and/or quantitative) and discusses how they can be overcome. We particularly welcome research that covers the following, preferably examining more than one sector of the One Health triad:
- Uses of antibiotics, including on animals and in agriculture;
- Antibiotic resistance surveillance;
- Epidemiology of antibiotic use and ABR;
- Antibiotic stewardship;
- ABR-sensitive and ABR-specific interventions tackling antibiotic resistance in the human–animal–environment interface;
- Observational studies and trials evaluating interventions related to antibiotic use and/or antibiotic resistance;
- Policy and economic evaluations ABR-associated interventions;
- Qualitative and quantitative research exploring the determinants of antibiotic use and/or antibiotic resistance;
- Gaps and current challenges of ABR research.
Dr. Nichola R. Naylor
Dr. Chris Pinto J.
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotic resistance
- One Health
- antibiotic usage
- stewardship
- drug-resistant infections
- interventions
- human–animal–environmental health
- surveillance
- burden
- policy
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