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Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers
Antibiotic use is an important component in dairy herd management both to treat bacterial diseases and to maximize animal welfare. However, there is concern among scientists that antibiotic misuse and/or overuse by farmers might promote the emergence of resistant pathogens. We conducted a cross-sect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9330383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35892387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11080997 |
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author | Casseri, Eleni Bulut, Ece Llanos Soto, Sebastian Wemette, Michelle Stout, Alison Greiner Safi, Amelia Lynch, Robert Moroni, Paolo Ivanek, Renata |
author_facet | Casseri, Eleni Bulut, Ece Llanos Soto, Sebastian Wemette, Michelle Stout, Alison Greiner Safi, Amelia Lynch, Robert Moroni, Paolo Ivanek, Renata |
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description | Antibiotic use is an important component in dairy herd management both to treat bacterial diseases and to maximize animal welfare. However, there is concern among scientists that antibiotic misuse and/or overuse by farmers might promote the emergence of resistant pathogens. We conducted a cross-sectional web-based questionnaire study with dairy farmers/managers in New York, USA to evaluate their (i) level of concern about antibiotic resistance and (ii) interest in adopting new judicious antibiotic use practices regarding mastitis treatment. A total of 118 responses were subjected to statistical analysis. The findings revealed that nearly half (45%) of study participants were undecided or disagreed that antibiotic resistance due to antibiotic use in dairy farming may negatively impact the health of dairy cattle. In contrast, the majority (78%) of participants self-reported that they do not treat with antibiotics at the first sign of mastitis, and the majority (66%) have either fully or partially implemented culture-based mastitis treatment on their farm. The self-reported adoption of culture-based mastitis treatment practices was statistically significantly associated with higher numbers of injectable and intramammary doses of antibiotics used on the participants’ farms. These findings will aid future research investigations on how to promote sustainable antibiotic use practices in dairy cattle. |
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spelling | pubmed-93303832022-07-29 Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers Casseri, Eleni Bulut, Ece Llanos Soto, Sebastian Wemette, Michelle Stout, Alison Greiner Safi, Amelia Lynch, Robert Moroni, Paolo Ivanek, Renata Antibiotics (Basel) Brief Report Antibiotic use is an important component in dairy herd management both to treat bacterial diseases and to maximize animal welfare. However, there is concern among scientists that antibiotic misuse and/or overuse by farmers might promote the emergence of resistant pathogens. We conducted a cross-sectional web-based questionnaire study with dairy farmers/managers in New York, USA to evaluate their (i) level of concern about antibiotic resistance and (ii) interest in adopting new judicious antibiotic use practices regarding mastitis treatment. A total of 118 responses were subjected to statistical analysis. The findings revealed that nearly half (45%) of study participants were undecided or disagreed that antibiotic resistance due to antibiotic use in dairy farming may negatively impact the health of dairy cattle. In contrast, the majority (78%) of participants self-reported that they do not treat with antibiotics at the first sign of mastitis, and the majority (66%) have either fully or partially implemented culture-based mastitis treatment on their farm. The self-reported adoption of culture-based mastitis treatment practices was statistically significantly associated with higher numbers of injectable and intramammary doses of antibiotics used on the participants’ farms. These findings will aid future research investigations on how to promote sustainable antibiotic use practices in dairy cattle. MDPI 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9330383/ /pubmed/35892387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11080997 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Casseri, Eleni Bulut, Ece Llanos Soto, Sebastian Wemette, Michelle Stout, Alison Greiner Safi, Amelia Lynch, Robert Moroni, Paolo Ivanek, Renata Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title | Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title_full | Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title_fullStr | Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title_short | Understanding Antibiotic Resistance as a Perceived Threat towards Dairy Cattle through Beliefs and Practices: A Survey-Based Study of Dairy Farmers |
title_sort | understanding antibiotic resistance as a perceived threat towards dairy cattle through beliefs and practices: a survey-based study of dairy farmers |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9330383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35892387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11080997 |
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