Wider Context of Antimicrobial Resistance, Including Molecular Biology Perspective and Implications for Clinical Practic
Molecular methods provide the possibility of investigating the genetic background of the antimicrobial resistance in more detail. The majority of resistant bacteria carry resistance genes either on chromosomes or, what is from an epidemiological perspecti
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Antimicrobials in Livestock 1: Regulation, Science, Practice A European Perspective
Antimicrobials in Livestock 1: Regulation, Science, Practice
Lucie Pokludová Editor
Antimicrobials in Livestock 1: Regulation, Science, Practice A European Perspective
Editor Lucie Pokludová Institute for State Control of Veterinary Biologicals and Medicines Brno, Czech Republic
ISBN 978-3-030-46720-3 ISBN 978-3-030-46721-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46721-0
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Preface
Thinking about antimicrobials, some questions necessarily should come that touch the essence of this term and related issues. For some of these questions, scientists have the answer or at least a science-based hypothesis. What does antibiosis mean? What are antibiotics (or the currently used broader term “antimicrobials”)? Where and when they came from? Why some microbes synthesize them? How they interact and keep the balance in microorganisms’ ecosystems? What is resistance to antimicrobials? Where it comes from? Why we started to use antimicrobials in animals not only for treatment of diseases? And what is the impact of that broad use both in human and veterinary medicine? What is current knowledge on the use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine and how can we minimize the need for the use of antimicrobials in animals and pressure on selection of resistance? What happened with antimicrobials after administration to animals? Are their residues harmful to the health of consumers? And are the residues risky from the pers
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