Antimicrobial resistance research in a post-pandemic world: Insights on antimicrobial resistance research in the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodríguez-Baño, Jesús; Rossolini, Gian María; Schultsz, Constance; Tacconelli, Evelina; Murthy, Srinivas; Ohmagari, Norio; Holmes, Alison; Bachmann, Till T.; Goossens, Herman; Cantón, Rafael; Roberts, Adam P.; Henriques‐Normark, Birgitta; Clancy, Cornelius J.; Huttner, Benedikt; Fagerstedt, Patriq; Lahiri, Shawon; Kaushic, Charu; Hoffman, Steven J.; Warren, Margo; Zoubiane, Ghada; Essack, Sabiha Y.; Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Plant, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.jgar.2021.02.013

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“…The ongoing pandemic has caused disruption of routine health services, leading to staff and resource redeployments to fight COVID-19 [ 38 ]. This has had the effect of overlooking and deprioritising AMS programmes that rely on multidisciplinary collaborations and the regular review of practices [ 39 ]. Reduced opportunities to optimse antimicrobial therapy in patients have followed, paired with a lack of expertise in generating evidence-based guidelines for antimicrobial prescribing for COVID-19.…”

Section: Drivers Of Antimicrobial Resistance In the Covid-19 Eramentioning

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Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Zimbabwe in the COVID-19 Era: A Perfect Recipe for Antimicrobial Resistance

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an upsurge in antimicrobial use. The increase in use is multifactorial, and is particularly related to the empirical treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and suspected coinfections with antimicrobials and the limited quality of diagnostics to differentiate viral and bacterial pneumonia. The lack of clear clinical guidelines across a wide range of settings, and the inadequacy of public health sectors in many countries, have contributed to this pattern. The increased use of antimicrobials has the potential to increase incidences of antimicrobial resistance, especially in low-resource countries such as Zimbabwe already grappling with multidrug-resistant micro-organism strains. By adopting the antimicrobial stewardship principles of the correct prescription and optimised use of antimicrobials, as well as diagnostic stewardship, revamping regulatory oversight of antimicrobial surveillance may help limit the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance during this pandemic.

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Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Zimbabwe in the COVID-19 Era: A Perfect Recipe for Antimicrobial Resistance

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“…The pandemic also negatively affected the healthcare-seeking behavior of the population not only in Africa [53] but also in other parts of the world [54]. The updated interim guidelines of the WHO recommend the integration of AMS programs with the clinical management of COVID-19 [55], but even in countries with advanced healthcare systems, antimicrobial stewardship programs are reported to have already become "COVID's casualty" [56,57]. There is no rationale to think of this impact to be otherwise in the very few African countries where scanty stewardship programs had been reported earlier [58][59][60].…”

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Cropping Up Crisis at the Nexus Between COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Africa: A Scoping Review and Synthesis of Early Evidence

Gutema¹,

Homa²

2022

Cureus

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In this study, we aim to synthesize some evidence on the impacts that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is having on the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Africa since it was declared a global pandemic by the WHO in March 2020.A scoping review was undertaken by collecting and curating relevant resources from peer-reviewed articles and also from the gray literature. Mixed approaches of extracting data (qualitative and quantitative) were employed in synthesizing evidence, as suggested by the Health Evidence Network.A model constructed based on the synthesis of early evidence available on the effects of factors linked to COVID-19 in impacting the evolution of AMR in Africa predicted that, in cumulative terms, those factors favoring the evolution of AMR outpace those disfavoring it by no less than three folds. COVID-19 is likely fueling the evolution of AMR almost unhindered in Africa. Due to the recognition of this crisis, concerted efforts for resource mobilization and global cooperation are needed to tackle it.

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“…However, the pandemic has changed our ways of thinking and has paved the way for more efficient measures against other types of infection [66]. The pandemic has established new forms of networking and collaboration processes: we learned how to rapidly disseminate new data on preprint servers and social Internet platforms; how to analyse viral genomes instantaneously on GISAID by different evolutionary biologists; and how to link clinical and epidemiological cohorts [67].…”

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Linking infection control to clinical management of infections to overcome antimicrobial resistance

Tacconelli

2021

Journal of Hospital Infection

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Antimicrobial resistance research in a post-pandemic world: Insights on antimicrobial resistance research in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Zimbabwe in the COVID-19 Era: A Perfect Recipe for Antimicrobial Resistance

Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Zimbabwe in the COVID-19 Era: A Perfect Recipe for Antimicrobial Resistance

Cropping Up Crisis at the Nexus Between COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Africa: A Scoping Review and Synthesis of Early Evidence

Linking infection control to clinical management of infections to overcome antimicrobial resistance

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