Antibiotic resistance is a serious public health issue, but the magnitude of its
\nimportance to animal health is poorly understood. Most of the resistance
\nproblems in humans arise from poor antibiotic use practices in human medicine, nevertheless, there is good evidence that antibiotic use in animals
\nincreases the prevalence of resistance in some important bacterial pathogens
\nof humans, including Salmonella and Campylobacter. There is increasing
\npressure to ensure that antibiotic use in all fields, both human and animal, is
\nprudent. Regulatory authorities are also under pressure to increase controls
\non approval and use of antibiotics in animals, but there is agreement that any
\nsuch controls must first be justified on scientific grounds. Particular attention
\nhas focused on antibiotic growth promoters and antibiotics critically important
\nfor use in humans. There is good evidence that reductions in use of growth
\npromoters in finisher pigs would have few adverse outcomes, but reductions in
\nweaned pigs should be accompanied by alternate methods to deal with
\ndiarrhea. Critically important antibiotics should be reserved for therapeutic use
\nof serious bacterial infections in pigs, and group treatments of these drugs
\nshould be discouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antibiotic resistance is a serious public health issue, but the magnitude of its importance to animal health is poorly understood. Most of the resistance problems in humans arise from poor antibiotic use practices in human medicine, nevertheless, there is good evidence that antibiotic use in animals increases the prevalence of resistance in some important bacterial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,640,3694,23943,1456,7279,60,16100,1066,9130,158,111,663,26380,48,10859,967,14,33,4167,2016,25553,20912,20911,4874,52,6053,3790,6244,6137],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-antibiotic","tag-antibiotic-growth-promoters","tag-antibiotics","tag-diarrhea","tag-disease","tag-drug-approval","tag-finisher","tag-finisher-pigs","tag-growth","tag-health","tag-health-impacts","tag-infec","tag-management","tag-nat","tag-pathogens","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-resistance","tag-salmonella","tag-scour","tag-some","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-treatment","tag-use","tag-weaned","tag-weaned-pig","tag-weaned-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}