Human health impacts of antibiotic use in agriculture: A push for improved causal inference

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Singer, Randall S ^a,b   Williams Nguyen, Jessica ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84902457221     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.05.014     Document Type: Review

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