Country Income Is Only One of the Tiles: The Global Journey of Antimicrobial Resistance among Humans, Animals, and Environment
, Lorenzo Brusetti 4, Elisabetta Pagani 2, Massimo Sartelli 5 and Leonardo Pagani 1,2,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The Authors submitted a review on antimicrobial resistance. As reported in the “Instructions for Authors” section of the journal, “the main text of review papers should be around 4000 words at minimum and include at least two figures or tables”. Accordingly, the Authors should modify the manuscript (e.g. to insert an explanatory table reporting resistance mechanisms in humans, animals and environment with related references). Besides, several interesting works on the same topic have not been mentioned:
Varaldo, P. E., Facinelli, B., Bagnarelli, P., Menzo, S., Mingoia, M., Brenciani, A., ... & Scalise, G. (2020). Antimicrobial Resistance: A Challenge for the Future. In The First Outstanding 50 Years of “Università Politecnica delle Marche” (pp. 13-29). Springer, Cham.
Kimera, Z. I., Mshana, S. E., Rweyemamu, M. M., Mboera, L. E., & Matee, M. I. (2020). Antimicrobial use and resistance in food-producing animals and the environment: an African perspective. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 9(1), 1-12.
Vidovic, N., & Vidovic, S. (2020). Antimicrobial resistance and food animals: Influence of livestock environment on the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. Antibiotics, 9(2), 52.
Moore, C. E. (2019). Changes in antibiotic resistance in animals. Science, 365(6459), 1251-1252.
Barlow, G. (2018). Clinical challenges in antimicrobial resistance. Nature microbiology, 3(3), 258-260.
Sharma, C., Rokana, N., Chandra, M., Singh, B. P., Gulhane, R. D., Gill, J. P. S., ... & Panwar, H. (2018). Antimicrobial resistance: its surveillance, impact, and alternative management strategies in dairy animals. Frontiers in veterinary science, 4, 237.
There are also specific comments outlined below that are required:
Line 53: replace “prospective” with “perspective”
Line 55: replace “ use” with “used”
Line 77: replace “certainly” with “certain”
Line 81: suggestion to replace “in addition” with “besides”
Line 115: replace “gram positive” with “Gram-positive”
Line 140: replace “encompass” with “encompasses”
Line 149: replace “gram-negatives” with “Gram-negative”
Line 199: replace “a more” with “more”
Line 206: replace “rising” with “raising”
Line 215: replace “competitor” with “competitors”
Line 216: replace “surprisingly” with “surprising”
Line 244: replace “been” with “be”
Line 269: replace “patients” with “patient”
Please, report all scientific names of bacterial species in italics.
Author Response
We would like to thank the reviewer for the useful comments to our work.
The authors do not feel that tables or figures would be useful to this, as we separate the three main domains of AMR, trying then to find common denominators, and it is mainly a narrative review; the references cited already provide insights on this.
All but one suggested references have been inserted and discussed, when necessary. The first one by Varaldo et al was irretrievable and is not indexed in PubMed; it was then discarded.
Scientific names of bacterial species are in italics, when specifically identified, such as Staphylococcus aureus or Enterobacterales; they should not be italicized when more generic, such as coagulase-negative staphylococci or vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
All the specific comments line-by-line have been changed or amended, as suggested; in most cases, they already lie in the highlighted sections in yellow, or have been also highlighted.
We also hope that this revision could suit; thanks once again
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors have satisfactorily addressed my earlier comments.
Author Response
Many thanks once again!
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I have no further comments.
