Antibiotics and resistance ‘two-way street’ between animals and humans – study Antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a two-way street between animals and humans, researchers have suggested.
The findings reveal the use of antibiotics in animals like cattle, pigs and chickens is associated with AMR in humans and using antibiotics in humans is linked with resistance in animals.
Experts across the world are determined to slow down the rise in AMR, which is partly fuelled by unnecessary use of antibiotics. The Independent
See also:
- Global antimicrobial-resistance drivers: an ecological country-level study at the human–animal interface (open access) The Lancet Planetary Health
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