Individual and group antimicrobial usage rates on 34 farrow-to-finish swine farms in Ontario, Canada

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 247-264

  Dunlop, R H ^a,c   McEwen, S A ^a   Meek, A M ^a   Black, W D ^a   Clarke, R C ^b   Friendship, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Health of Animals Laboratory   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Control strategies; Diseases; Herd health; Pig

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CANADA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DATA COLLECTION; ONTARIO; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0032571018     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00093-7     Document Type: Article

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