Antibiotic Alternatives: The Substitution of Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry?

It is a common practice for decades to use of sub-therapeutic dose of antibiotics in food-animal feeds to prevent animals from diseases and to improve production performance in modern animal husbandry. In the meantime, concerns over the increasing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to th...

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Main Authors: Guyue eCheng, Haihong eHao, Shuyu eXie, Xu eWang, Menghong eDai, Lingli eHuang, Zong-Hui eYuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00217/full