2007/07/26 by Lord Soulsby · 1 citation
Environmental Science · #Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
paper · doi:10.1093/jac/dkm164
openalex publication_date 2007/07/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The concern about transmission of resistant enteric organisms from livestock to humans via the food chain has substantially lessened owing to the banning of the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in young animals. Nevertheless, therapeutic use in animals is high and resistance is increasing in production species and companion animals. Environmental spread via commensal organisms is of increasing concern.