Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration It's a well-known fact that factory farms rely on antibiotics to treat ...

Rather than concentrate on the use of antibiotics, the research advocated alternative growth promotion methods, such as adding digestive enzymes and probiotics to animal feed and improving ...

Antibiotics are often overprescribed by physicians and veterinarians and overused by the public. Where they can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

A global modeling study found that 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics from human use alone enter rivers annually, threatening ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

6 In addition, farming practices, such as the use of unnecessary antibiotics for growth promotion in livestock, contribute significantly to the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in both animals ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...

They found that while antibiotic resistance initially rises in response to antibiotic use, it does not rise indefinitely. Instead, resistance rates reached an equilibrium over the 20-year period ...