The potential role of concentrated animal feeding operations in infectious disease epidemics and antibiotic resistance

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-316

  Gilchrist, Mary J ^a   Greko, Christina ^b   Wallinga, David B ^c   Beran, George W ^d   Riley, David G ^e   Thorne, Peter S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Influenza; Manure lagoon; Poultry; Swine; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVOPARCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LIVESTOCK; MASS IMMUNIZATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SWINE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 33847009454     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8837     Document Type: Article

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