BLOG: Antibiotic surveys and their significance?

We have recently completed a survey of antimicrobial usage in the UK. Following on from this, I have tried to establish the usage of cephalosporins in pigs and their comparative impact on resistance in pig pathogens and potentially human pathogens. BPEX, the UK pig levy-payers association recently sponsored a survey of antimicrobial use in pigs in the UK (Burch, 2014). It showed that approximately 167 tonnes of antibiotic were used for pigs in 2012, approximately 41% of overall antimicrobial use