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Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More
The goal of this study is to describe the current use of antibiotics in the European pig industry based on an extensive literature review. To achieve this, an overview of results from national (n = 15) and multi-country (n = 2) cross-sectional and longitudinal (n = 2) surveys, which describe antimic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9686698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36358148 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11111493 |
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author | Dewulf, Jeroen Joosten, Philip Chantziaras, Ilias Bernaerdt, Elise Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Postma, Merel Maes, Dominiek |
author_facet | Dewulf, Jeroen Joosten, Philip Chantziaras, Ilias Bernaerdt, Elise Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Postma, Merel Maes, Dominiek |
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description | The goal of this study is to describe the current use of antibiotics in the European pig industry based on an extensive literature review. To achieve this, an overview of results from national (n = 15) and multi-country (n = 2) cross-sectional and longitudinal (n = 2) surveys, which describe antimicrobial use in pigs, is presented. Results are further linked to the outcome of the European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC) project. Overall, it was found that weaned piglets received the most antibiotics, followed by suckling piglets resulting in over 80% of the treatments being administered to animals before 10 weeks of age. Furthermore, it was observed that antibiotic use (ABU) was significantly associated across age categories, indicating that farms with a high use in piglets also used more antibiotics in their finishers. This may, among other things, be explained by farmers’ habits and behavior. However, above all, the studies showed surprisingly large differences in ABU between the countries. These differences may be related to the differences in disease prevalence and/or differences in the level of biosecurity. However, they may also reflect variations in rules and regulations between countries and/or a difference in attitude towards ABU of farmers and veterinarians that are not necessarily linked to the true animal health situation. Furthermore, it was observed that already a substantial proportion of the European pig production is able to successfully raise pigs without any group treatments, indicating that it is possible to rear pigs without systematic use of antibiotics. Based on the ESVAC data, a decline of 43.2% was observed in sales of antibiotics for animals in Europe between 2011 and 2020. To enable efficient antimicrobial quantification and stewardship, 15 European countries have already established systems for herd level monitoring ABU in pigs. |
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spelling | pubmed-96866982022-11-25 Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More Dewulf, Jeroen Joosten, Philip Chantziaras, Ilias Bernaerdt, Elise Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Postma, Merel Maes, Dominiek Antibiotics (Basel) Review The goal of this study is to describe the current use of antibiotics in the European pig industry based on an extensive literature review. To achieve this, an overview of results from national (n = 15) and multi-country (n = 2) cross-sectional and longitudinal (n = 2) surveys, which describe antimicrobial use in pigs, is presented. Results are further linked to the outcome of the European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC) project. Overall, it was found that weaned piglets received the most antibiotics, followed by suckling piglets resulting in over 80% of the treatments being administered to animals before 10 weeks of age. Furthermore, it was observed that antibiotic use (ABU) was significantly associated across age categories, indicating that farms with a high use in piglets also used more antibiotics in their finishers. This may, among other things, be explained by farmers’ habits and behavior. However, above all, the studies showed surprisingly large differences in ABU between the countries. These differences may be related to the differences in disease prevalence and/or differences in the level of biosecurity. However, they may also reflect variations in rules and regulations between countries and/or a difference in attitude towards ABU of farmers and veterinarians that are not necessarily linked to the true animal health situation. Furthermore, it was observed that already a substantial proportion of the European pig production is able to successfully raise pigs without any group treatments, indicating that it is possible to rear pigs without systematic use of antibiotics. Based on the ESVAC data, a decline of 43.2% was observed in sales of antibiotics for animals in Europe between 2011 and 2020. To enable efficient antimicrobial quantification and stewardship, 15 European countries have already established systems for herd level monitoring ABU in pigs. MDPI 2022-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9686698/ /pubmed/36358148 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11111493 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 | Review Dewulf, Jeroen Joosten, Philip Chantziaras, Ilias Bernaerdt, Elise Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Postma, Merel Maes, Dominiek Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title | Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title_full | Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title_fullStr | Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title_full_unstemmed | Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title_short | Antibiotic Use in European Pig Production: Less Is More |
title_sort | antibiotic use in european pig production: less is more |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9686698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36358148 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11111493 |
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