Public Health Consequences of Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Food Animals in the United States

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-379

  Anderson, Alicia D ^a   Nelson, Jennifer M ^a   Rossiter, Shannon ^a   Angulo, Frederick J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0842307673     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107662903322762815     Document Type: Article

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