China, what antibiotics and what volumes are used in food production animals?

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Collignon, Peter ^a   Voss, Andreas ^b  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Developing countries; Food; Livestock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENROFLOXACIN; FLEROXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BRAZIL; CHINA; CONTAMINATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MANURE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TREND STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 84938484294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-015-0056-5     Document Type: Editorial

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