Sustainable farming: Get pigs off antibiotics

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7404, 2012, Pages 465-466

  Aarestrup, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAW; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SWINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DENMARK; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FECES; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; SUS SCROFA; UNITED STATES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84862993049     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/486465a     Document Type: Note

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