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. 2015 Apr 1;93(4):217-8.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.030415.

What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?

Antoine Andremont, Fiona Fleck

What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?

Antoine Andremont et al. Bull World Health Organ. .

Abstract

This year's World Health Day is on food safety. The mass use of antibiotics in animal husbandry is contaminating the food supply with resistant bacteria, causing difficult-to-treat infections while reducing the power of antibiotics to cure human infections. Antoine Andremont talks to Fiona Fleck.

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