Agricultural Antibiotics and Human Health
Open Access
- 5 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (8) , e232
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020232
Abstract
Smith and colleagues discuss evidence suggesting that antibiotic use in agriculture has contributed to antibiotic resistance in the pathogenic bacteria of humans.Keywords
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