It is a common practice for decades to use of sub-therapeutic dose of antibiotics in food-animal feeds to prevent animals from diseases and to improve production performance in modern animal husbandry. In the meantime, concerns over the increasing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the unreasonable use of antibiotics and an appearance of less novelty antibiotics have prompted eff...

Blunt or penetrating lesions and crush asphyxia resulting from attacks by large animals, and poisoning by or an anaphylactic reaction to hymenoptera stings, are a significant cause of death in agricultural occupations. Medico-legal investigations should accurately evaluate the scene of death, the related circumstances and the autopsy evidence in order to reconstruct the dynamics of the fatal ev...

U. Bhardwaj, B. K. Tiwary, A. Prasad and S. Ganguly* Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi 834 006, India AICRP-PHT (Kolkata Centre), Department of Fish Processing Technology, Faculty of Fishery Sciences, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata 700 094, India *Corresponding Author, e-...

1Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, People’s Republic of China, 2College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, 3College of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai University, Xining, People’s Republic of China, 4Department of Biosciences, Qinghai University, Xining, People’s Rep...

Increasing resistance of pathogens to anti-infective drugs is an urgent public health problem that must be addressed through more prudent use of these drugs in human medicine and in animal husbandry, agriculture, and aquaculture.