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Article: Antibiotic bans questioned.(News)
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- Feedstuffs
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- March 12, 2007
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A SURPRISING finding by a team of University of Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on poultry farms will do little--if anything--to reduce rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have the potential to threaten human health.
Dr. Margie Lee, professor in the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, and her colleagues have found that chickens raised on antibiotic-free farms and even those raised under pristine laboratory conditions have high levels of bacteria that are resistant to common antibiotics.
Her findings, published in the March issue of the journal Applied & Environmental Microbiology, suggest that ...