Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture: A Call to Action for Health Care Providers

Affiliations

¹ Michael J. Martin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Sapna E Thottathil is with Supply Chain Programming, School Food FOCUS, a program of the Tides Center, San Francisco. Thomas B. Newman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.

Editorial

Michael J Martin et al. Am J Public Health. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;105(12):2409-10.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302870. Epub 2015 Oct 15.

¹ Michael J. Martin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Sapna E Thottathil is with Supply Chain Programming, School Food FOCUS, a program of the Tides Center, San Francisco. Thomas B. Newman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.

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