Livestock Feed Ban Preserves Drugs' Power
- 4 January 2002
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 295 (5552) , 27-28
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.295.5552.27a
Abstract
CHICAGO-- It's no secret that livestock fed antibiotics breed drug-resistant bacteria that can cause dangerous infections in people. But a new study suggests that the process is reversible. Banning a drug called avoparcin from animal feed dramatically reduced the chances that potentially dangerous gut microbes in hospital patients would be resistant to an important, related drug, Belgian researchers reported last month at a meeting sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology.Keywords
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