Does adding routine antibiotics to animal feed pose a serious risk to human health?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7917, 2013, Pages

  Wallinga, David ^a   Burch, David G S ^b  

^a End Antibiotic Overuse in Animal Agriculture   (United States)

^b Octagon Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; APRAMYCIN; AVOPARCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN; FLORFENICOL; IMIPENEM; LINCOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NEW DRUG; PENICILLIN V; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINUPRISTIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TIAMULIN; TIGECYCLINE; TILMICOSIN; TYLOSIN; TYLVALOSIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALNEMULIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HEALTH; HUMANS; RISK;

EID: 84880607032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4214     Document Type: Article

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