Limmathurotsakul, DirekSandoe, Jonathan A TBarrett, David CCorley, MichaelHsu, Li YangMendelson, MarcCollignon, PeterLaxminarayan, RamananPeacock, Sharon JHoward, Philip2022-09-192022-09-190305-7453http://hdl.handle.net/1885/272891We thank Dominic Moran for describing the potential implications of our proposed antibiotic footprint and how the ecological footprint was originally defined.1 The ‘antibiotic footprint’ has been designed as a simple metric focusing on communication with the general public, healthcare professionals and policy makers to aid reduction of antibiotic consumptionapplication/pdfen-AU© 2019 The authorshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'Antibiotic footprint' as a communication tool to aid reduction of antibiotic consumption-authors' response201910.1093/jac/dkz2762021-11-14Creative Commons Attribution licence