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Antibiotics for Animals: The Antibiotic Resistance Issue

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Animal Sciences Department, University of Kentucky
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
Abstract
Suspending subtherapeutic use of antibiotics would not eliminate the transfer of antibiotic-resistant intestinal bacteria from animals to humans. The main problem appears to be the disease-causing bacteria, not their resistance or nonresistance to one or more antibiotics.
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