Preventive antibiotic treatment of calves: emergence of dysbiosis causing propagation of obese state‐associated and mobile multidrug resistance‐carrying bacteria

Summary In agriculture, antibiotics are used for the treatment and prevention of livestock disease. Antibiotics perturb the bacterial gut composition but the extent of these changes and potential consequences for animal and human health is still debated. Six calves were housed in a controlled enviro...

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Main Authors: Dorota A. Dobrzanska, Matthew T. F. Lamaudière, Jessica Rollason, Lauren Acton, Michael Duncan, Sharon Compton, John Simms, Gareth D. Weedall, Igor Y. Morozov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-05-01
Series:Microbial Biotechnology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13496