Abstract
The environment is the most important reservoir for both resistance mechanisms and gene transfer in biological science studies. This study gives a bibliometric overview of studies of “antibiotic resistance” and “Escherichia coli” in the field of “Agricultural and Biological Sciences” from 2015 to 2019 to assess both research trends and scholarly networks in diverse research disciplines. The two keywords of “antibiotic resistance” and “Escherichia coli” were selected to search in the Scopus database. Each review article was categorized into materials, natural waters (i.e., seawater, freshwater) and wastewater, journal name, and quartile in category of the journal, the year of publication, and the country. Bibliometric indicators and visualization maps were utilized to analyse the retrieved data quantitatively and qualitatively. A total of 1376 publications in the field of agricultural and biological sciences over the last 5 years were obtained using the keywords of antibiotic resistance and Escherichia coli. With additional keywords of freshwater and wastewater, 4 and 24 studies were obtained, respectively. Wastewater was found to be the most common working environment for the keywords of antibiotic resistance and Escherichia coli. It is also found that the studies of antibiotic resistance are mainly conducted in wastewater environments, focusing on human and food health. Working under “One Health” consisting of human, animal and agriculture, and environmental health could be the only permanent and effective approach to solving antibiotic resistance-related issues.
Highlights
Antibiotic was an important discovery which treats many infections and prevents the spread of infectious diseases
This study provides a bibliometric analysis of the latest scientific studies on antibiotic resistance and Escherichia coli in the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences from 2015 to 2019
There are more keywords on resistance in the various topics encountered while searching the database; in this study, we focused on only antibiotic resistance
Summary
Antibiotic was an important discovery which treats many infections and prevents the spread of infectious diseases. Bacteria can rapidly evolve resistance to antibiotics (Pinheiro et al 2020). In 2015, World Health Organization (WHO) established a Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) to act against antibiotic. WHO published a global list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria based on their priorities. According to this list, twelve bacteria and bacterial families are classified into three categories as critical, high, and medium. A bibliometric study can provide a significant dataset to determine the frequencies and deficiencies of the studies. These bibliometric analyses, provide solutions to the spread and prevention of antibiotic resistance in the environment
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