Medical Consequences of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture
- 13 February 1998
- journal article
- policy
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 279 (5353), 996-997
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.279.5353.996
Abstract
Besides hospitals animal husbandry represents a large reservoir of transferable antibiotic resistance genes. Via food products resistant bacteria can easily reach humans. The current debate is above all concerning antibiotic use as growth promoters which can be gradually phased out by better animal performance.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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