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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationPublic Health Foundation of Indiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversité de Liègeen
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Institute of Public Healthen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Canberraen
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Council of Medical Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUppsala Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorInternational Development Research Centreen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierJohanna Lindahl: 0000-0002-1175-0398
cg.creator.identifierDelia Grace: 0000-0002-0195-9489
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0354-9en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2047-2994en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalAntimicrobial Resistance and Infection Controlen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriAGRI-HEALTHen
cg.subject.ilriAMRen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL HEALTHen
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriVACCINESen
cg.volume7en
dc.contributor.authorChauhan, Abhimanyu Singhen
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Mathew Sunilen
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, Pranaben
dc.contributor.authorLindahl, Johanna F.en
dc.contributor.authorGrace, Deliaen
dc.contributor.authorKakkar, Manishen
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-11T09:41:17Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-11T09:41:17Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92506
dc.titleThe social biography of antibiotic use in smallholder dairy farms in Indiaen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2018-05-02
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
dcterms.issued2018-12
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/171207en
dcterms.subjectanimal healthen
dcterms.subjectdairiesen
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen
dcterms.subjectantibioticsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectresistance to antibioticsen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectveterinary medicineen
dcterms.subjectqualitative analysisen
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjectdairy farmsen
dcterms.subjectdrugsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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