Effects of Antibiotics in Agriculture
on Antimicrobial Resistance
How Agriculture Affects Antimicrobial Resistance
How Antibiotics are used in Agriculture
- Prevent disease
- Cure disease
- Promote growth
Positives
- Healthy animals
- Lower costs for farmer
- Disease free meat for consumer
How Can Antimicrobial Resistance Happen?
Negatives
- Misuse of antibiotics
- Antimicrobial resistance in animals and humans
- Naturally
- Misuse of antibiotics in human medicine
- misuse of antibiotics in agriculture
What is Antimicrobial Resistance?
- the resistance of bacteria, or microorganism, to the antibiotic or antimicrobial, causing incurable bacterial infections