The social biography of antibiotic use in smallholder dairy farms in India

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationPublic Health Foundation of Indiaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversité de Liègeen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Institute of Public Healthen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Canberraen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Council of Medical Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUppsala Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen_US
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Healthen_US
cg.contributor.donorInternational Development Research Centreen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierJohanna Lindahl: 0000-0002-1175-0398en_US
cg.creator.identifierDelia Grace: 0000-0002-0195-9489en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0354-9en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2047-2994en_US
cg.issue1en_US
cg.journalAntimicrobial Resistance and Infection Controlen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriAGRI-HEALTHen_US
cg.subject.ilriAMRen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL HEALTHen_US
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen_US
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriVACCINESen_US
cg.volume7en_US
dc.contributor.authorChauhan, Abhimanyu Singhen_US
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Mathew Sunilen_US
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, Pranaben_US
dc.contributor.authorLindahl, Johanna F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGrace, Deliaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKakkar, Manishen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-11T09:41:17Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-05-11T09:41:17Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92506en_US
dc.titleThe social biography of antibiotic use in smallholder dairy farms in Indiaen_US
dcterms.abstractBackground Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the major threats to global health, food security and development today. While there has been considerable attention about the use and misuse of antibiotics amongst human populations in both research and policy environments, there is no definitive estimate of the extent of misuse of antibiotics in the veterinary sector and its contribution to AMR in humans. In this study, we explored the drivers ofirrational usage of verterinary antibiotics in the dairy farming sector in peri-urban India. Methods and materials The study was conducted in the peri-urban belts of Ludhiana, Guwahati and Bangalore. A total of 54 interviews (formal and non-formal) were carried out across these three sites. Theme guides were developed to explore different drivers of veterinary antimicrobial use. Data was audio recorded and transcribed. Analysis of the coded data set was carried out using AtlasTi. Version 7. Themes emerged inductively from the set of codes. Results Findings were presented based on concept of ‘levels of analyses’. Emergent themes were categorised as individual, health systems, and policy level drivers. Low level of knowledge related to antibiotics among farmers, active informal service providers, direct marketing of drugs to the farmers and easily available antibiotics, dispensed without appropriate prescriptions contributed to easy access to antibiotics, and were identified to be the possible drivers contributing to the non-prescribed and self-administered use of antibiotics in the dairy farms. Conclusions Smallholding dairy farmers operated within very small margins of profits. The paucity of formal veterinary services at the community level, coupled with easy availability of antibiotics and the need to ensure profits and minimise losses, promoted non-prescribed antibiotic consumption. It is essential that these local drivers of irrational antibiotic use are understood in order to develop interventions and policies that seek to reduce antibiotic misuse.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2018-05-02en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationChauhan, A.S., George, M.S., Chatterjee, P., Lindahl, J., Grace, D. and Kakkar, M. 2018. The social biography of antibiotic use in smallholder dairy farms in India. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 7: 60.en_US
dcterms.issued2018-12en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherSpringeren_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/171207en_US
dcterms.subjectanimal healthen_US
dcterms.subjectdairiesen_US
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen_US
dcterms.subjectantibioticsen_US
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen_US
dcterms.subjectresistance to antibioticsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood securityen_US
dcterms.subjectveterinary medicineen_US
dcterms.subjectqualitative analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten_US
dcterms.subjecthealthen_US
dcterms.subjectdairy farmsen_US
dcterms.subjectdrugsen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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