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Global trends in antimicrobial resistance in animals in low- and middle-income countries

2019; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 365; Issue: 6459 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.aaw1944

ISSN

1095-9203

Autores

Thomas P. Van Boeckel, João Pires, Reshma Silvester, Cheng Zhao, Julia Song, Nicola G. Criscuolo, Marius Gilbert, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Ramanan Laxminarayan,

Tópico(s)

Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Resumo

Livestock antibiotic resistance Most antibiotic use is for livestock, and it is growing with the increase in global demand for meat. It is unclear what the increase in demand for antibiotics means for the occurrence of drug resistance in animals and risk to humans. Van Boeckel et al. describe the global burden of antimicrobial resistance in animals on the basis of systematic reviews over the past 20 years (see the Perspective by Moore). There is a clear increase in the number of resistant bacterial strains occurring in chickens and pigs. The current study provides a much-needed baseline model for low- and middle-income countries and provides a “one health” perspective to which future data can be added. Science , this issue p. eaaw1944 ; see also p. 1251

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