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Reduction in Colistin-resistant bacteria after China ban
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:58 pm
by jimbob
More evidence (if it was needed) that antibiotics should be very tightly controlled (if not banned) in livestock farming. And certainly prophylactic use.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspec ... in-animals
Re: Reduction in Colistin-resistant bacteria after China ban
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:35 am
by FlammableFlower
That is interesting. I wonder what the prophylactic use in the US is like?
Re: Reduction in Colistin-resistant bacteria after China ban
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:44 pm
by tom p
FlammableFlower wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:35 am
That is interesting. I wonder what the prophylactic use in the US is like?
Of antibiotics generally or this one in particular?
Generally, it's rampant and endemic.