Drug Resistance

Using Antibiotics To Promote Growth in Animals May Place People at Risk

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 26th, 1999

Because of the risks they pose to human health, certain antibiotics should probably not be used to promote animal growth, said the authors of an article in Emerging Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which tracks new and reemerging infections worldwide.

For more than 30 years, antibiotics have been added to animal feed to increase animal growth. The use of antibiotics in animals is estimated to account for more than half the total antibiotic use worldwide. One growth-promoting antibiotic, avoparcin, causes growth of a bacterium (Enterococcus faecium) resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin.

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (1999-07-26)

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