Ominous projections for global antibiotic use in food-animal production

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5554-5555

  Price, Lance B ^a,b,c   Koch, Benjamin J ^c   Hungate, Bruce A ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG USE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEADERSHIP; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POULTRY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; POULTRY;

EID: 84928966753     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505312112     Document Type: Note

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