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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