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Global Antibiotic Use

A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 9614

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Prof. Dr. Xiaoxv Yin

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School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: rational antibiotic use; antimicrobial stewardship
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Dear Colleagues,

Antibiotic resistance caused by the irrational use of antibiotics has become a global public health problem. Identifying and evaluating the current status of global antibiotic use is a necessary prerequisite for antimicrobial stewardship and effective feedback for intervention implementation. The supply and demand sides of health services include health facilities, retail pharmacies, and residents. These are the primary targets for evaluating human antibiotic use in various countries. In this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of original research articles, short communications, or review articles that evaluate the rationality of antibiotic use from multiple perspectives.

Prof. Dr. Xiaoxv Yin
Guest Editor

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  • antibiotic use
  • antibiotic resistance
  • antimicrobial stewardship
  • global

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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Cross-Sectional Study among Students in Israel
by Keren Dopelt, Almog Amar, Nickol Yonatan and Nadav Davidovitch
Antibiotics 2023, 12(6), 1028; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12061028 - 8 Jun 2023
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Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to human health, food security, and development. This study aimed to examine the level of knowledge and awareness regarding antibiotic resistance while comparing students from health sciences to students in other disciplines. A cross-sectional study [...] Read more.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to human health, food security, and development. This study aimed to examine the level of knowledge and awareness regarding antibiotic resistance while comparing students from health sciences to students in other disciplines. A cross-sectional study was conducted based on the “antibiotic resistance” questionnaire developed by the World Health Organization. A total of 371 students participated in the study. All respondents had taken antibiotics in the past. A tenth had taken them on their own without a prescription, and 14% had not received an explanation regarding the use of antibiotics. The average for the knowledge questions was 15.49 ± 5.35 (out of 27). Many students mistakenly associated antibiotics with viral diseases. Despite these misconceptions, there was a high level of awareness and understanding regarding the ways to treat antibiotic resistance. Still, the awareness of the severity of antibiotic resistance was not high. Differences were found between the disciplines in general knowledge and the level of awareness and understanding about the ways to treat antibiotic resistance, where health science students had the highest scores, followed by social science students and finally, computer and management students. No differences were found in the perception of the severity of the phenomenon. This information is essential to developing educational interventions to improve knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding antibiotic use among students, especially those unrelated to the health sciences. Full article
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Self-Medication as an Important Risk Factor for Antibiotic Resistance: A Multi-Institutional Survey among Students
by Shah Zeb, Mariam Mushtaq, Muneeb Ahmad, Waqas Saleem, Ali A. Rabaan, Bibi Salma Zahid Naqvi, Mohammed Garout, Mohammed Aljeldah, Basim R. Al Shammari, Nehad J. Al Faraj, Nisreen A. Al-Zaki, Mona J. Al Marshood, Thuria Y. Al Saffar, Khadija A. Alsultan, Shamsah H. Al-Ahmed, Jeehan H. Alestad, Muhammad Naveed and Naveed Ahmed
Antibiotics 2022, 11(7), 842; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11070842 - 23 Jun 2022
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Self-medication is an important issue, especially in developing countries. Self-medication is the concept in which individuals use medicine to ease and manage their minor illnesses. The current survey was designed to conduct interviews at different universities based on the availability of the students [...] Read more.
Self-medication is an important issue, especially in developing countries. Self-medication is the concept in which individuals use medicine to ease and manage their minor illnesses. The current survey was designed to conduct interviews at different universities based on the availability of the students from August 2021 to October 2021 in Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan. Overall, 1250 questionnaires were distributed to students from various departments. Students of microbiology (n = 305, 24.4%) and agriculture 236 (n = 18.8%) were the most elevated members in this study, while other participants were from medical lab technology (n = 118, 9.4%), chemistry (n = 103, 8.2%), food science (n = 92, 7.3%), business administration (n = 83, 6.6%), sociology (n = 78, 6.2%), math/physics (n = 6, 14.8%), Pak study (n = 58, 4.6%), English (n = 47, 3.7%), and psychology (n = 19, 1.5%). Students working towards their Bachelor numbered (n = 913, 73.0%), Master (minor) numbered (n = 80, 6.4%), Master (major) numbered (n = 221, 17.6%), and Doctorate numbered (n = 36, 2.8%). The age group of participants was majorly 20–25 years (61.0%), while others belonged to the age groups 25–30 years (20.6%), 30–35 years (9.8%), and 35–40 years (8.4%). The mean and standard deviation of daily practices of self-medication were observed (M = 416.667, SD = 1,026,108.667) and p = 0.002. The mean and standard deviation of daily practices of antibiotic knowledge was (M = 431.5, SD = 1,615,917) and p = 0.002. Antimicrobial agents were leading over others with 631 (50.4%), followed by anti-inflammatory with 331 (26.4%), multivitamins with 142 (11.3%), gynecological purpose with 59 (4.7%), and analgesic with 72 (5.7%), while the lowest frequency rate was observed against herbal remedies with 15 (1.2%). The results of the current study concluded that students practiced self-medication for reasons such as convenience to obtain these medications from cheap sources and to avoid the fee of a physician. They searched for the medicine on social media platforms and purchased it blindly from the pharmacy without any prescription from a physician. Full article
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