Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche ''Togo Rosati''

Authors   Sargenti M, Capuccella M, Perugini G, Aconiti Mandolini N, Filippini G, Baiguini A, Vaccaro A, Pelagalli G, Marinelli F, Nespeca L, Pierucci P

Abstract  In Italy, the National Plan against Antimicrobial resistance (PNCAR 2017-2020) requires the Regions to provide data on the consumption of antimicrobial drugs in animals, with the intention to use the already known in human medicine DDD-based analysis method. The aim of this descriptive study was to evaluate the consumption of antimicrobial in livestock from all around Marche Region during 2018, using the standardized unit of measurement (DDD), according to One Health principles. The same analysis was conducted in 2017; in this way, it was possible to assess the trend in use of antimicrobials, with particular attention to Critically Important Antimicrobials (CIAs), along the two years taken into account. The collaboration with the Public Veterinary Services of Marche Region was essential in order to insert data from veterinary prescriptions in Veterinary Pharmacovigilance Centre database. In 2018, 5762 prescriptions of livestock have been digitized, reaching the total amount of 47597,78 x 10⁴ of prescribed DDD. Seventy-one percent of these was prescribed for swine, followed by poultry (11%) and rabbits (10%). Penicillins are the antibiotic class most prescribed in the whole Region, followed by tethracyclines and pleuromutilines; macrolides are the most represented CIAs. The compared analysis to 2017 highlighted an overall reduction in using antibiotics, in particular in swine and poultry farms. This trend reflects the new management strategies emerging in these sectors and furthermore is a straight consequence of having published at national level several guidelines on principles of good use of antibiotics in animals

Publish Date  2019

Volume  115

ISSN  1592-1581

DOI  no

URL   https://spvet.it/archivio/numero-115/701.html

Journal  Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria

Pages  no

PMID no