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Antimicrobial agents – optimising the ecological balance

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2016
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Title
Antimicrobial agents – optimising the ecological balance
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0661-z
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Sze-Ann Woon, Dale Fisher

Abstract

There is no more challenging a group of pharmaceuticals than antimicrobials. With the antibiotic era came great optimism as countless deaths were prevented from what were previously fatal conditions. Although antimicrobial resistance was quickly identified, the abundance of antibiotics entering the market helped cement attitudes of arrogance as the "battle against pestilence appeared won". Opposite emotions soon followed as many heralded the return of the pre-antibiotic era, suggesting that the "antibiotic pipeline had dried up" and that our existing armament would soon be rendered worthless. In reality, humans overrate their ecological importance. For millions of years there has been a balance between factors promoting bacterial survival and those disturbing it. The first half century of the "antibiotic era" was characterised by a cavalier attitude disturbing the natural balance; however, recent efforts have been made through several mechanisms to respond and re-strengthen the antimicrobial armament. Such mechanisms include a variety of incentives, educational efforts and negotiations. Today, there are many more "man-made" factors that will determine a new balance or state of ecological harmony. Antibiotics are not a panacea nor will they ever be inutile. New resistance mechanisms will be identified and new antibiotics will be discovered, but most importantly, we must optimise our application of these extraordinary "biological tools"; therein lays our greatest challenge - creating a society that understands and respects the determinants of the effectiveness of antibiotics.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 109 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 18%
Student > Bachelor 16 15%
Researcher 10 9%
Lecturer 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 22 20%
Unknown 28 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 19%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 14 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Other 17 16%
Unknown 33 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2023.
All research outputs
#7,241,008
of 22,882,389 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,563
of 3,438 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#124,164
of 366,897 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#35
of 45 outputs
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