Antimicrobial resistance in livestock and poor quality veterinary medicines

Medicines quality assurance to fight antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance is increasingly the focus of global attention. The adoption of resolution 68.7 at the 68th World Health Assembly1 was pivotal in the ongoing fight against antimicrobial resistance, as the resolution urges Member States to develop national action plans to fight antimicrobial resistance by 2017. To date, 67 Member States, out of 194, have already developed such plans, whi...

Antimicrobial Resistance in Livestock Production

Salmonella is a foodborne pathogen generally associated with mild to moderate self-limiting gastroenteritis. In the United States the incidence of salmonellosis (16.37 cases per 100,000 population/ year) ranked highest among the pathogens tracked by FoodNet in 2012 (CDC, 2014). Furthermore, invasive infections accounted for 5% of the reported salmonellosis cases during 1996-2006 (Jones 2008). W...

Antimicrobial Resistance in Veterinary Medicine

Traditional veterinary medicines used by livestock owners of Rajasthan, India

Livestock comprises a major part of Indian agriculture economics. Livestock owners in farflung remote areas still depend upon plants and animal products for curing various veterinary ailments. This folk knowledge of ethnoveterinary significance has been identified by tribal and rural people through a process of experience over hundreds of years. The present paper deals with the plant as well as...

European Medicines Agency Veterinary Medicines and Inspections

1. Ivermectin belongs to the macrocyclic lactone class of endectocides and consists of a mixture of two homologous compounds, 22,23-dihydroavermectin B1a (H2B1a, not less than 80%) and 22,23-dihydroavermectin B1b (H2B1b, not more than 20%). Avermectins are potent anthelmintic, insecticidal and acaracidal compounds which, by increasing the membrane permeability to chloride ions, mediate the para...