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Examining the Veterinary Electronic Antimicrobial Prescription for Dog and Cat in Campania Region, Italy: Corrective Strategies Are Imperative

Valentina Foglia Manzillo
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Maria Francesca Peruzy
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Manuela Gizzarelli
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Berardino Izzo
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Paolo Sarnelli
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Antonio Carrella
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Giuseppina Vinciguerra
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Claudia Chirollo
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Nour el Houda Ben-Fayala
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Ines Balestrino
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Gaetano Oliva
Version 1 : Received: 30 May 2023 / Approved: 31 May 2023 / Online: 31 May 2023 (08:51:16 CEST)

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Foglia Manzillo, V.; Peruzy, M.F.; Gizzarelli, M.; Izzo, B.; Sarnelli, P.; Carrella, A.; Vinciguerra, G.; Chirollo, C.; Fayala, N.E.H.B.; Balestrino, I.; Oliva, G. Examining the Veterinary Electronic Antimicrobial Prescriptions for Dogs and Cats in the Campania Region, Italy: Corrective Strategies Are Imperative. Animals 2023, 13, 2869. Foglia Manzillo, V.; Peruzy, M.F.; Gizzarelli, M.; Izzo, B.; Sarnelli, P.; Carrella, A.; Vinciguerra, G.; Chirollo, C.; Fayala, N.E.H.B.; Balestrino, I.; Oliva, G. Examining the Veterinary Electronic Antimicrobial Prescriptions for Dogs and Cats in the Campania Region, Italy: Corrective Strategies Are Imperative. Animals 2023, 13, 2869.

Abstract

Companion animals are increasingly being recognized as important contributors to the spreading of antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The present work aimed to measure the antimicrobial drug prescribing in dogs and cats in the Campania region, Italy by analyzing the Veterinary Electronic Prescriptions (VEPs) between 2019 and 2020. The medical records associated with antimicrobial drug prescription were collected considering the drug delivery (systemic or local) and the rationale for the treatment chosen. In the period under investigation, 166879 drugs were prescribed of which 129116 (73.37 %) were antimicrobial. A total of 83965 (65.03 %) antibiotics were prescribed to dogs, 40477 (31.35 %) to cats, and 4674 (3.62 %) to other companion animals. In dogs the 90.48 % of VEPs prescribed for systemic treatment included an antimicrobial Critically Important or Highly Important or Important for human medicine (WHO, 2018). The most widely commonly prescribed class were fluoroquinolones. The main prescribed antimicrobials were the metronidazole-spiramycin (29.71%), amoxicillin-clavulanic (19.58%), enrofloxacin and cephalexin in dogs (16.52 %) and enrofloxacin (22.64%) and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (21.37 %) in cats. Based on the results the wide use of broad-spectrum or second-line antibiotics is emerged together with the use of the critically important antimicrobials for human medicine.

Keywords

antimicrobials; companion animals; veterinary electronic prescription; antimicrobial resistance

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine

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