Article
Three versus seven days of apramycin treatment for post-weaning diarrhoea in piglets: clinical and resistance gene outcomes from a cluster-randomised field trial
2026-07-01
Abstract excerpt
<title>Abstract</title> <p> Background Post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) is a major driver of antimicrobial use in pigs. Optimising treatment duration may reduce selection pressure while maintaining clinical efficacy, but under EU Regulation (EU) 2019/6 veterinarians must adhere to authorised treatment durations, creating a need for evidence to support label changes. This study aimed to determine whether a 3-day apr...
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- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
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- Literature Corpus work
- 93655bf7-f03e-5dc8-b75e-d9a76372e60d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10116583/v1
