Learning from agriculture: understanding low-dose antimicrobials as drivers of resistome expansion

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health challenge worldwide, with agricultural use of antimicrobials being one major contributor to the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. Globally, most antimicrobials are used in industrial food animal production, a major context fo...

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Main Authors: Yaqi eYou, Ellen K. Silbergeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00284/full