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dc.contributor.authorChan, KW
dc.contributor.authorBard, AM
dc.contributor.authorAdam, KE
dc.contributor.authorRees, GM
dc.contributor.authorMorgans, L
dc.contributor.authorCresswell, L
dc.contributor.authorHinchliffe, S
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, DC
dc.contributor.authorReyher, KK
dc.contributor.authorBuller, H
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T12:11:32Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-18
dc.description.abstractBackground This paper explores the current role and place of diagnostic tests in the treatment of farm animal disease. With the growing focus on reduced reliance on antibiotic medicines in both animal and human patient care, attention is increasingly being focused on the practice, the technology and the function of diagnostic tests and how these can support responsible antimicrobial use. Emerging diagnostic technologies offer the possibility of more rapid testing for bacterial disease, while food chain actors and others are increasingly seeking to make diagnostic tests mandatory before the use of critically important antibiotics. Method This paper reports the findings of a recent large-scale online survey of UK farm animal veterinarians (n=153) which investigated current veterinary diagnostic practice with particular attention to the relationship between diagnostic test use and antibiotic treatment. Results Results revealed a range of factors that influence veterinary diagnostic practice and demonstrate the continuing importance of clinical observation and animal/herd knowledge in the selection of antibiotic treatment. Conclusion The findings identify a considerable ambivalence on the part of farm animal veterinarians regarding the current and future uses of rapid and point-of-care diagnostic tests as a means of improving clinical diagnosis and addressing inappropriate antibiotic medicine use.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 18 September 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/vr.105822
dc.identifier.grantnumberES/P008194/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/122981
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherBMJ Publishing Group / British Veterinary Associationen_GB
dc.rights© British Veterinary Association 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.en_GB
dc.titleDiagnostics and the challenge of antimicrobial resistance: a survey of UK livestock veterinarians’ perceptions and practicesen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-09-24T12:11:32Z
dc.identifier.issn0042-4900
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from BMJ Publishing Group via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalVeterinary Recorden_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-07-13
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-09-18
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-09-24T12:07:29Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2020-09-24T12:11:37Z
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