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

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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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: World Health Organization 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4431565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26229185
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.030415
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spelling pubmed-44315652015-07-30 What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain? Bull World Health Organ News 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. World Health Organization 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4431565/ /pubmed/26229185 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.030415 Text en (c) 2015 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title_full What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title_fullStr What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title_full_unstemmed What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title_short What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
title_sort what to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4431565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26229185
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.030415