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Antibiotics in Agriculture as an Environmental Public Health Issue: Saving the “Magic Bullet”

June 5, 2007

Background Information / Resources

Keep Antibiotics Working Campaign 

Curtailing Antibiotic Use in Agriculture, Steve Heilig, Philip Lee, and Lester Breslow, Western Journal of Medicine, January 2002.

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci and fecal indicators in surface water and groundwater impacted by a concentrated swine feeding operation, Sapkota, A, F Curriero, K Gibson and K Schwabb, Environmental Health Perspectives, Online 22 March 2007. 

Johnson JR, Sannes MR, Croy C, Johnston B, Clabots C, Kuskowski MA, et al. Antimicrobial drug–resistant Escherichia coli from humans and poultry products, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2002–2004. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2007 Jun [date cited]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/6/838.htm.

EXCERPT:

"[D]rug-susceptible human isolates differed considerably from those of human and poultry isolates. In contrast, drug-resistant human isolates were similar to poultry isolates, and drug-susceptible and drug-resistant poultry isolates were largely indistinguishable. Many drug-resistant human fecal E. coli isolates may originate from poultry, whereas drug-resistant poultry-source E. coli isolates likely originate from susceptible poultry-source precursors."


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FoodMed 2007: The Second International Conference on Healthy Food in Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28 -29th, 2007. Register now!

6th International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water, Costa Mesa, California, October 22-23, 2007.

 

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