Understanding therapeutic and subtherapeutic (nontherapeutic) antibiotic use in livestock is essential since misuse may lead to emergence of antibiotic resistance and treatment failure and/or death in livestock or humans. Regulatory approval of antibiotic uses must focus on decreasing emergence of ...
Antibiotics are widely used in animal husbandry, and various types of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are frequently detected in livestock waste around the world. Conventional livestock waste treatment processes do not completely remove ARGs, resulting in their release to soil and water environments....
Now the new genome analysis found that the MRSA strain found in livestock in 2003 likely came from an antibiotic sensitive strain of MRSA in humans. "Most of the ancestral human strains were sensitive to antibiotics, whereas the livestock strains had acquired resistance on several independent occasi...
Robinson TP, Bu DP, Carrique-Mas J, Fevre EM, Gilbert M, Grace D, Hay SI, Jiwakanon J, Kakkar M, Kariuki S, Laxminarayan R, Lubroth J, Magnusson U, Thi Ngoc P, Van Boeckel TP, Woolhouse MEJ (2017) Antibiotic resistance: mitigation opportunities in livestock sector development. ...
Anthropogenic environments have been implicated in enrichment and exchange of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria. Here we study the impact of confined and controlled swine farm environments on temporal changes in the gut microbiome and resistome of
A superbug is a bacteria that has high levels of resistance to many different antibiotics. How did we get in this situation? Widespread antibiotic use in human medicine and livestock production has helped fuel the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (aka superbugs). ...
Public-health officials say antibiotic resistance is one of the leading human health threats of our time. There has been massive use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. The most abundant use of antimicrobials worldwide are in livestock; they are typically ...
According to them, there is a need to handle the threat of antibiotic resistance and urged for taking actions in order to ensure antimicrobial resistance is dealt with firmly in human, livestock and crops. Health experts for behaviour change in antibiotic use, prescription An example of how antib...
are concerned about antibiotic resistance caused by drug misuse. However, studies suggest that bacteria do not need exposure to antibiotics to gain resistance. Indeed, Bhullar et al. (2012) discovered bacteria at the bottom of a 1,000 feet deep cave (Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico) that, ...
Animal feces from livestock farming can be a major source of antibiotic resistance to the environment, but a clear gap exists on how the resistance reservoir in feces alters as farming activities intensify. Here, we sampled feces from eight Chinese farms, where yak, sheep, pig, and horse were...