Associations between reported on-farm antimicrobial use practices and observed antimicrobial resistance in generic fecal Escherichia coli isolated from Alberta finishing swine farms

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 185-192

  Varga, Csaba ^a   Rajić, Andrijana ^a,b   McFall, Margaret E ^c   Reid Smith, Richard J ^a,b   Deckert, Anne E ^a,b   Checkley, Sylvia L ^c   McEwen, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial use practices; Escherichia coli; Multidrug resistance; Risk factors; Swine

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 58149481741     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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