Managing quantities of antimicrobials

Antimicrobial resistance: monitoring the quantities of antimicrobials used in animal husbandry.

This guideline, developed by the Office International des Epizooties for the monitoring of the quantities of antimicrobials used in animal husbandry, provides the methodology required to assess the amounts of antimicrobials used, to supply data to be used for risk analysis and to improve guidance on the appropriate use of antimicrobials. Information may be gathered from a number of sources, suc...

Framing of Numerical Quantities

Judgments and decisions are dependent upon the information available. They are also dependent upon the way the information is presented. Message characteristics that make recipients willing to endorse a message have been discussed within the rhetoric tradition and studied empirically in the psychology of persuasion (Cialdini, 2007), advertising (Armstrong, 2010), and health communication (Berry...

Measurements of Electrical Quantities

Cockroaches, locusts, and envenomating arthropods: a promising source of antimicrobials

Objective(s): To present a brief overview of various natural sources of antimicrobials with the aim of highlighting invertebrates living in polluted environments as additional sources of antimicrobials. Materials and Methods: A PubMed search using antibacterials, antimicrobials, invertebrates, and natural products as keywords was carried out. In addition, we consulted conference proceedings, or...

Taxonomy of quantities

The adjectives "generic", "subgeneric", "specific", and "individual" are proposed to be added to the term "quantity", depending on the case, in order to diminish the ambiguity of this term and to classify the different types of quantities.