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Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel
BACKGROUND: Development of antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to human and animal health worldwide. Antimicrobials are frequently used in animal husbandry, making food-producing animals a widespread and important source of antimicrobial resistance. Indeed, recent evidence demonstrates tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37101188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-023-00562-z |
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author | Berman, Tali Sarah Barnett-Itzhaki, Zohar Berman, Tamar Marom, Eli |
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description | BACKGROUND: Development of antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to human and animal health worldwide. Antimicrobials are frequently used in animal husbandry, making food-producing animals a widespread and important source of antimicrobial resistance. Indeed, recent evidence demonstrates that antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals poses a threat to the health of humans, animals and the environment. To address this threat, national action plans have been implemented based on a ‘One Health’ approach, which integrates actions across human and animal health sectors to combat antimicrobial resistance. Although under development, Israel has yet to publish a national action plan against antimicrobial resistance, despite alarming findings of resistant bacteria in food-producing animals in the country. Here we review several national action plans against antimicrobial resistance around the world in order to suggest approaches to develop a national action plan in Israel. MAIN BODY: We investigated worldwide national action plans against antimicrobial resistance based on a ‘One Health’ approach. We also conducted interviews with representatives of relevant Israeli ministries to understand antimicrobial resistance policy and regulatory frameworks in Israel. Finally, we present recommendations for Israel towards implementing a ‘One Health’ national action plan against antimicrobial resistance. Many countries have developed such plans, however, only a few are currently funded. Furthermore, many countries, especially in Europe, have taken action to reduce the use of antimicrobials and the spread of antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals by banning the use of antimicrobials to promote growth, reporting data on the use and sales of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, operating centralized antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems and preventing the use of antimicrobials important to human medicine to treat food-producing animals. CONCLUSIONS: Without a comprehensive and funded national action plan, the risks of antimicrobial resistance to the public health in Israel will escalate. Thus, several actions should be considered: (1) Reporting data on the use of antimicrobials in humans and animals. (2) Operating a centralized surveillance system for antimicrobial resistance in humans, animals and the environment. (3) Improving awareness regarding antimicrobial resistance in the general public and in health practitioners from both human and animal sectors. (4) Composing a list of critically important antimicrobials to human medicine that’s use should be avoided in food-producing animals. (5) Enforcing best practices of antimicrobial use at the farm-level. (6) Reducing incidence of infection through farm biosecurity. (7) Supporting research and development of new antimicrobial treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tools. |
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spelling | pubmed-101324062023-04-27 Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel Berman, Tali Sarah Barnett-Itzhaki, Zohar Berman, Tamar Marom, Eli Isr J Health Policy Res Integrative Article BACKGROUND: Development of antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to human and animal health worldwide. Antimicrobials are frequently used in animal husbandry, making food-producing animals a widespread and important source of antimicrobial resistance. Indeed, recent evidence demonstrates that antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals poses a threat to the health of humans, animals and the environment. To address this threat, national action plans have been implemented based on a ‘One Health’ approach, which integrates actions across human and animal health sectors to combat antimicrobial resistance. Although under development, Israel has yet to publish a national action plan against antimicrobial resistance, despite alarming findings of resistant bacteria in food-producing animals in the country. Here we review several national action plans against antimicrobial resistance around the world in order to suggest approaches to develop a national action plan in Israel. MAIN BODY: We investigated worldwide national action plans against antimicrobial resistance based on a ‘One Health’ approach. We also conducted interviews with representatives of relevant Israeli ministries to understand antimicrobial resistance policy and regulatory frameworks in Israel. Finally, we present recommendations for Israel towards implementing a ‘One Health’ national action plan against antimicrobial resistance. Many countries have developed such plans, however, only a few are currently funded. Furthermore, many countries, especially in Europe, have taken action to reduce the use of antimicrobials and the spread of antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals by banning the use of antimicrobials to promote growth, reporting data on the use and sales of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, operating centralized antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems and preventing the use of antimicrobials important to human medicine to treat food-producing animals. CONCLUSIONS: Without a comprehensive and funded national action plan, the risks of antimicrobial resistance to the public health in Israel will escalate. Thus, several actions should be considered: (1) Reporting data on the use of antimicrobials in humans and animals. (2) Operating a centralized surveillance system for antimicrobial resistance in humans, animals and the environment. (3) Improving awareness regarding antimicrobial resistance in the general public and in health practitioners from both human and animal sectors. (4) Composing a list of critically important antimicrobials to human medicine that’s use should be avoided in food-producing animals. (5) Enforcing best practices of antimicrobial use at the farm-level. (6) Reducing incidence of infection through farm biosecurity. (7) Supporting research and development of new antimicrobial treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tools. BioMed Central 2023-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10132406/ /pubmed/37101188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-023-00562-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Integrative Article Berman, Tali Sarah Barnett-Itzhaki, Zohar Berman, Tamar Marom, Eli Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title | Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title_full | Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title_fullStr | Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title_full_unstemmed | Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title_short | Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel |
title_sort | antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in israel |
topic | Integrative Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37101188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-023-00562-z |
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