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Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, November 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

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Title
Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum
Published in
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, November 2013
DOI 10.1186/2047-2994-2-31
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Authors

Angela Huttner, Stephan Harbarth, Jean Carlet, Sara Cosgrove, Herman Goossens, Alison Holmes, Vincent Jarlier, Andreas Voss, Didier Pittet, for the World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum participants

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now a global threat. Its emergence rests on antimicrobial overuse in humans and food-producing animals; globalization and suboptimal infection control facilitate its spread. While aggressive measures in some countries have led to the containment of some resistant gram-positive organisms, extensively resistant gram-negative organisms such as carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae and pan-resistant Acinetobacter spp. continue their rapid spread. Please start the sentence as follows: Antimicrobial conservation/stewardship programs have seen some measure of success in reducing antimicrobial overuse in humans, but their reach is limited to acute-care settings in high-income countries. Outside the European Union, there is scant or no oversight of antimicrobial administration to food-producing animals, while evidence mounts that this administration leads directly to resistant human infections. Both horizontal and vertical infection control measures can interrupt transmission among humans, but many of these are costly and essentially limited to high-income countries as well. Novel antimicrobials are urgently needed; in recent decades pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned antimicrobial discovery and development given their high costs and low yield. Against this backdrop, international and cross-disciplinary collaboration appears to be taking root in earnest, although specific strategies still need defining. Educational programs targeting both antimicrobial prescribers and consumers must be further developed and supported. The general public must continue to be made aware of the current scale of AMR's threat, and must perceive antimicrobials as they are: a non-renewable and endangered resource.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 686 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 123 17%
Student > Bachelor 90 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 89 13%
Researcher 66 9%
Student > Postgraduate 51 7%
Other 125 18%
Unknown 159 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 142 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 91 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 53 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 49 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 47 7%
Other 134 19%
Unknown 187 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2019.
All research outputs
#618,283
of 24,702,628 outputs
Outputs from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#48
of 1,402 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,254
of 314,051 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#2
of 4 outputs
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