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ABSTRACT

Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR) is considered as a silent pandemic and identified as a global priority research area. Unlocking the prevalence/ epidemiology of AMR pathogens in various sectors, their mitigation strategies, and identifying the novel alternatives to antibiotics is the need of the hour. Dairy farms or dairy supply/value chain may contribute to the emergence and dissemination of AMR pathogens to the food chain and thereby contributes significantly to the public health safety. Several multi-drug resistant pathogens of World Health Organization (WHO) priority (critical, high and medium priority) have been reported from the dairy production and processing system. The various sources of AMR pathogens in dairy production include dairy farm environment, animal handler, milk, manure, dung, dairy farm water. Likewise, in case of dairy processing sector, the handler, raw materials (milk), equipment, packing materials, environment, etc. contributes to the various sources. This suggests the need to effective management strategies to confront the spread and emergence of AMR in dairy chain. In this regard, the present article recapitulates the risk of growing AMR in dairy sector to sensitize the human resource working in dairy chain. In addition, mechanisms of AMR bacteria, their classification, prevalence of MDR pathogens in dairy production and processing sectors have been underscored thereof.