Effect of Abolishment of the Use of Antimicrobial Agents for Growth Promotion on Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Fecal Enterococci from Food Animals in Denmark

By Frank Moller Aarestrup, A. Seyfarth, H. Emborg, K. Pedersen, R. Hendriksen, F. Bager. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2001

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Pollution

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4. B. Marshall
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Citations in the corpus

• Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms (2013, background): “Decreased resistance levels have been observed in Europe after the disuse of agricultural antibiotics (51).”
• The Economic Costs of Withdrawing Antimicrobial Growth Promoters from the Livestock Sector (2015, background): “Eliminating the use of AGPs is likely to be compensated by improving animal management practices and bio-security (Aarestrup et al., 2001, 2010).”
• Antimicrobial use and resistance in animals. (2002, background): “2000 [44], although there has been some increase in use of therapeutic antimicrobials [32].”
• Antibiotic resistance gene spread due to manure application on agricultural fields. (2011, background): “The reduction in resistance of animal enterococci observed after the ban of several growth promoters in Europe serves as one of the few well-documented examples [25,26].”
• Review of antibiotic resistance in China and its environment. (2018, positive): “The experiences exempli fi ed by the reduction in antibiotic use in Denmark and The Netherlands in pig farming can provide instructive case studies on the e ff ects of reduced antibiotic use in animal food production (Aarestrup et al., 2001; Dierikx et al., 2016).”
• Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment (2013, background): “…subtherapeutic use of anti biotics in Denmark led to marked reductions of anti biotic resistance among fecal enterococci in the animal populations (Aarestrup et al. 2001), demonstrating that it is indeed possible to reverse the occurrence of anti biotic resistance among a national population of…”
• Food Animals and Antimicrobials: Impacts on Human Health (2011, background): “faecium prevalence, from 27% to 70% (7).”