402 Antibiotics in Food Animal Agriculture: Stakeholder Perceptions of Use, Overuse & Misuse.

Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture: A Call to Action for Health Care Providers.

Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture: A Call to Action for Health Care Providers Recently, the World Health Organization called antimicrobial resistance “an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society.” Of all antibiotics sold in the United States, approximately 80% are sold for use in animal agriculture; about 70% of t...

Policy Brief and Recommendations #4 Misuse of Antibiotics in Food Animal Production

Use of antibiotics in plant agriculture.

Antibiotics are essential for control of bacterial diseases of plants, especially fire blight of pear and apple and bacterial spot of peach. Streptomycin is used in several countries; the use of oxytetracycline, oxolinic acid and gentamicin is limited to only a few countries. Springtime antibiotic sprays suppress pathogen growth on flowers and leaf surfaces before infection; after infection, an...

Alternatives to Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecoimmunological View

Ecological immunology (or ecoimmunology) is a new discipline in animal health and immunology that extends immunologists' views into a natural context where animals and humans have co-evolved. Antibiotic resistance and tolerance (ART) in bacteria are manifested in antibiosis-surviving subsets of resisters and persisters. ART has emerged though natural evolutionary consequences enriched by human ...

Editorial: Use and Misuse of Systemic Antibiotics in Periodontitis Treatment.

Periodontitis is one of the most common inflammatory diseases affecting humans all over the world. Its prevalence varies from one country to another, yet thanks to the decline of edentulism and the general increase of life expectancy, it has been consistently rising in the past decade.5,9Moreover, nowadays patients are more inclined to keeping their natural teeth as long as possible, despite im...