Antibiotics as feed additives for livestock: Human health concerns
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The use of antibiotics as feed additives for farm animals.
Antibiotics are added at low concentrations to feeds as growth stimulants and at therapeutic levels to cure known diseases. As their action in both instances is to modify bacterial, protozoal or fungal populations, the division between the two categories is indistinct ; this is especially so when intermediate levels are considered. The present outline of use includes other feed additives which ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Animal Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0019-5057
DOI: 10.36062/ijah.58.2spl.2019.121-136