TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards monitoring the invisible threat
T2 - a global approach for tackling AMR in water resources and environment
AU - Cutrupi, Francesca
AU - Osinska, Adriana Dorota
AU - Rahmatika, Iftita
AU - Afolayan, Juwon Samuel
AU - Vystavna, Yulija
AU - Mahjoub, Olfa
AU - Cifuentes, Jorge I.
AU - Pezzutto, Denise
AU - Muziasari, Windi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2024 Cutrupi, Osinska, Rahmatika, Afolayan, Vystavna, Mahjoub, Cifuentes, Pezzutto and Muziasari.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now increasingly recognized for the danger posed by its environmental spread. Aquatic environments and wastewater represent a significant diffusion and selection pathway for antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARGs and ARBs). During a collaborative hackathon event, the “Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment,” held in September 2023, experts addressed four challenges related to water quality, including the challenge of globalization AMR surveillance in water. This paper, derived from the workshop findings, proposes a globally adaptable model for antimicrobial resistance surveillance intended as an advance to improve future monitoring systems. The new framework aims to address significant challenges, such as the lack of standardized methodological approaches or lack of funding, coordination, and awareness across a short-, medium- and long-term plan, integrating sustainability concepts, extending participation and monitoring capacity of countries, and offering efficient solutions. This vision is first articulated by creating a technical committee that promotes awareness of antimicrobial resistance and develops a single data management and communication platform. Subsequently, by developing local, national, and international policies, centralized laboratories will be established at the regional level, and built based on existing realities. These laboratories will include facilities to make the management of analyses more efficient, from sampling to reporting the final result. In the long term, activities that allow the maintenance of the created framework and continuous technological development and advancement will be promoted. All this will be achieved in collaboration with national and supranational bodies that are already addressing the issue at a global level.
AB - The global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now increasingly recognized for the danger posed by its environmental spread. Aquatic environments and wastewater represent a significant diffusion and selection pathway for antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARGs and ARBs). During a collaborative hackathon event, the “Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment,” held in September 2023, experts addressed four challenges related to water quality, including the challenge of globalization AMR surveillance in water. This paper, derived from the workshop findings, proposes a globally adaptable model for antimicrobial resistance surveillance intended as an advance to improve future monitoring systems. The new framework aims to address significant challenges, such as the lack of standardized methodological approaches or lack of funding, coordination, and awareness across a short-, medium- and long-term plan, integrating sustainability concepts, extending participation and monitoring capacity of countries, and offering efficient solutions. This vision is first articulated by creating a technical committee that promotes awareness of antimicrobial resistance and develops a single data management and communication platform. Subsequently, by developing local, national, and international policies, centralized laboratories will be established at the regional level, and built based on existing realities. These laboratories will include facilities to make the management of analyses more efficient, from sampling to reporting the final result. In the long term, activities that allow the maintenance of the created framework and continuous technological development and advancement will be promoted. All this will be achieved in collaboration with national and supranational bodies that are already addressing the issue at a global level.
KW - antimicrobial resistance
KW - surveillance
KW - wastewater
KW - water
KW - water quality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189530468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/frwa.2024.1362701
DO - 10.3389/frwa.2024.1362701
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85189530468
SN - 2624-9375
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Water
JF - Frontiers in Water
M1 - 1362701
ER -