Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture

A Call to Action for Health Care Providers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11035993
AutoresMichael J Martins (0009-0003-7191-036X, University of California, San Francisco), Michael J Martin (Michael J. Martin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Sapna E Thottathil is with Supply Chain Programming, School Food FOCUS, a program of the Tides Center, San Francisco. Thomas B. Newman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.), Sapna E Thottathil (0009-0006-9473-5092, Michael J. Martin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Sapna E Thottathil is with Supply Chain Programming, School Food FOCUS, a program of the Tides Center, San Francisco. Thomas B. Newman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.), Thomas B Newman (0000-0002-5662-263X, Michael J. Martin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Sapna E Thottathil is with Supply Chain Programming, School Food FOCUS, a program of the Tides Center, San Francisco. Thomas B. Newman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.)
Año2015
Volumen105
Número12
Páginas2409-2410
Fecha de publicación2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2015.302870
PMID26469675
OpenAlexW2157675740
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas2

The authors focus on the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture and evidence this is resulting in increased antibiotic resistance in organisms. It states antibiotics are given to animals in their feed to prevent infections and marginally improve animal growth. It mentions a number of nations have restricted the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and reports the U.S. Congress has repeatedly stalled a bill to phase out the use of eight medically-important antibiotics in animal feed

Action (physics) · Agriculture · Animal agriculture · Animal health · Antibiotic resistance · Antibiotics · Biology · Business · Call to action · Environmental health · Intensive care medicine · Veterinary medicine · Antibiotic Use and Resistance · Biotechnology · Ecology · Insect and Pesticide Research · Marketing · Medicine · Microbiology · Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts