Agricultural antibiotics and human health: Does antibiotic use in agriculture have a greater impact than hospital use?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 0731-0735

  Smith, David L ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan ^a,b   Morris Jr , J Glenn ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOPARCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FOOD ADDITIVE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; ZOONOSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD ADDITIVES; GLYCOPEPTIDES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33751255170     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020232     Document Type: Review

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