The BioAMR project advances a bio-economic approach, that is inter-institutional (implying one coordinator plus five partners) and systemic, of AMR (antimicrobial resistance) in terms of

i) economic efficiency

ii) sustainability in the environment, and

iii) societal acceptance of the structured grid covering man – domestic/ wild animals and pets – food/fodder – environment (water/soil).

The project scope covers a bio-economic survey of consumption/usage of antimicrobial products (i.e. longitudinal inquiry regarding consumption/usage of antimicrobial products), as well as resistance of microorganisms (such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus) to antimicrobial products (by inquiries/ studies and cross-sector approaches of the four trophic subsystems (water/soil – food/fodder – animals (wild/farm and pets) – man.

Integrated survey of the polyvalent systems grid will be analyzed by an informatics-statistics-mathematics approach, so that the red HUB’s (critical subgrids/nodes) can be identified. Actually, each subsystem strives full-might to be economically efficient (healthy crops, fast cheap diagnosis methods for real-time intervention, and such like) and resilient (resilience to infections of animals and of man, but also multiplication and AMR developed by the microbs).

It is our hypothesis that mapping out and societal acceptance of accurate intervention points (each subsystem’s studies cutoffs) geared in the HUB’s grid, will allow for management and efficient survey of consumption/ AMR. Beyond the inter-institutional co-operation, licenses, studies, reports and data bases supplied to society, multidisciplinary study of AMR will permit signalling out the red HUB’s to be used for societal welfare, such HUB’s now supporting a complex system as fighting resistance to antimicrobial products