Article
Modelling the impact of curtailing antibiotic usage in food animals on antibiotic resistance in humans
2016-09-27
Abstract excerpt
1. <h4>Summary</h4> Consumption of antibiotics in food animals is increasing worldwide and is approaching, if not already surpassing, the volume consumed by humans. It is often suggested that reducing the volume of antibiotics consumed by food animals could have a public health benefits. Although this notion is widely regarded as intuitively obvious there is a lack of robust, quantitative evidence to either suppo...
Topics
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- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Gut microbiota and health
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
Identifiers and source
- Literature Corpus work
- c7733ded-fe25-5be3-a0a4-86ea14476c97
- DOI
- 10.1101/077776
