Antimicrobial stewardship hindered by inadequate biosecurity and biosafety practices, and inappropriate antibiotics usage in poultry farms of Nepal–A pilot study

• Ajit Poudel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal, One Health Division, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7751-5668

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• Shreeya Sharma,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4460-1217

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• Kavya Dhital,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal

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• Shova Bhandari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation One Health Division, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Pragun Gopal Rajbhandari,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation One Health Division, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rajindra Napit,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal, One Health Division, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3299-2986

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• Dhiraj Puri,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal

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• Dibesh B. Karmacharya

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dibesh@biovacnepal.com, dibesh@cmdn.org

  Affiliations One Health Division, Biovac Nepal, Nala, Nepal, One Health Division, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5093-6737

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