Knowledge, attitude and practice towards antibiotic use and resistance 1 among the veterinarians in Bangladesh 2 Running title: Knowledge, attitude and practice towards antibiotic use and 3 resistance 4 5 Md Samun Sarker 1 , Iftekhar Ahmed 2 , Shariful Islam 3 , Ruhena Begum 1 , Ayesha 6 Ahmed 4 , Fatema Akter Mahua 4 , Md Ehsanul Kabir 1 , Nure Alam Siddiky 1 , 7 Mohammed A. Samad 1* 8 9 1 Antimicrobial Resistance Action Center (ARAC), Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute 10 (BLRI), Savar, Dhaka-1341, Bangladesh 11 2 Department of Pharmacy, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh 12 3 EcoHealth Alliance, New York City, NY, USA 13 4 Department of Public health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh 14 15 * Corresponding author 16 E-mail: [email protected], Tel.: +88 01717047877 17 18 19 20 . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted June 8, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.03.21258263 doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.