Does the use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine and animal husbandry select antibiotic-resistant bacteria that infect man and compromise antimicrobial chemotherapy?

Open Access

1 July 1996

journal article
review article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Vol. 38 (1) , 1-3
https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/38.1.1

Abstract

LAURA J. V. PIDDOCK; Does the use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine and animal husbandry select antibiotic-resistant bacteria that infect man and

Keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT
CHEMOTHERAPY
MEDICINE
VETERINARY
HUSBANDRY
INFECT