Colonization Dynamics of Cefotaxime Resistant Bacteria in Beef Cattle Raised Without Cephalosporin Antibiotics

Colonization Dynamics of Cefotaxime Resistant Bacteria in Beef Cattle Raised Without Cephalosporin Antibiotics

The emergence of infections caused by antimicrobial resistant microorganisms (ARMs) is currently one of the most important challenges to public health and medicine. Though speculated to originate at least partially from the overuse of antibiotics during food animal production, we hypothesized that c...

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Main Authors: Raies A. Mir, Thomas A. Weppelmann, Lin Teng, Alexander Kirpich, Mauricio A. Elzo, Joseph D. Driver, Kwangcheol C. Jeong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
antimicrobial resistance
ESBL
cefotaxime resistance
cattle
metagenomic analysis
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00500/full

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