Usage of Antibiotic in Agriculture and Animal Farming, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics in Animal Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 5517
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antibiotics; antibiotic resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the 2nd edition of the Special Issue “Usage of Antibiotic in Agriculture and Animal Farming”. The use of antibiotics is a common practice in modern agriculture and farming, and the quantities used can easily compete with those used in human medicine. This practice has been increasingly criticized in recent years. It is also to be expected that the discussion on this topic will become even broader the more it is publicized. In addition to concerns about animal welfare and the quality of the obtained food, the impact on antibiotic resistance is hardly being discussed. The use of antibiotics, regardless of the area of application, leads to the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The question of the contribution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from farming to the general problem of antibiotic resistance is still under discussion.
Not all resistant clone lines can be traced back to their origin in agriculture as easily as in livestock-associated MRSA. The active exchange of genetic information via different vectors makes it difficult to quantify the exact impact. This goes hand in hand with the distribution of the antibiotics and the induced resistances, be it via the food chain or via surface and ground water. In all these cases, there is also a mixing up with contaminants from human medicine.
In any case, actions are being taken (and will be taken) to further optimize and regulate the use of antibiotics in agriculture in order to reduce the effects on human health while maintaining or even improving the benefits of using antibiotics in agriculture.
Dr. Gernot Zarfel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Antibiotics
- antibiotic resistance
- livestock
- farming
- food production
- environmental contamination
- consumer concerns
- animal welfare
- growth promoter
- prophylaxis
- horizontal gene transfer
