Is it time to ban all antibiotics as animal growth-promoting agents? [15]

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9039, 1996, Pages 1454-1455

  Mudd, A J ^a   Burch, D G S ^a   Van den Bogaard, A E ^a   Stobberingh, E E ^a  

^a ROCHE PRODUCTS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVOPARCIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; LINCOMYCIN; PLEUROMUTILIN; TIAMULIN; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DIGESTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH HAZARD; LETTER; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 0029911166     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(04)70103-8     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. AE van den Bogaard EE Stobberingh Time to ban all antibiotics as animal growth-promoting agents? Lancet 348 1996 619
2. Devries LA, Haesebrouck F. Susceptibility of enterococci and intestinal streptococci from pigs to the growth-enhancing antibiotics flavomycin and avoparcin. Proceedings of the 14th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress, Bologna, 1996.
3. Seyed-Akhavani M, Hill RLR Morrison D, Woodford N, Beighton D. Casewell MW. A molecular comparison of vancomycin-resistant E. Faecium (VREF) strains isolated from patients and chickens. 35th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Francisco, 1995.