Benefits and risks of antimicrobial use in food-producing animals

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Hao, Haihong ^a   Cheng, Guyue ^a   Iqbal, Zahid ^a   Ai, Xiaohui ^b   Hussain, Hafiz I ^a   Huang, Lingli ^a   Dai, Menghong ^a   Wang, Yulian ^a   Liu, Zhenli ^a   Yuan, Zonghui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Animal food production; Antimicrobial drug; Benefit; Public health; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905197987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00288     Document Type: Review

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