BLOG: Human antibiotic resistance. The myth dispelled!
The constant attacks on the veterinary profession about their use of antimicrobials and that it is the cause of resistance in human medicine, has given me cause for concern. A recent joint paper by prominent scientists in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany dispels some of these myths.
The paper by Wu and others (2013) looked at extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) carrying Escherichia coli from animals, animal food products and humans and compared their similarity. Many of the isolates car
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