Reduced antibiotic use in livestock: How Denmark tackled resistance

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Levy, Sharon ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVOPARCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GROWTH PROMOTOR; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DENMARK; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT; LAW; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DENMARK; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; LIVESTOCK;

EID: 84901805608     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A160     Document Type: Note

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