JAC Advance Access originally published online on March 17, 2004
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2004) 53, 885
© 2004 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Antibiotic use in animals
1 University of London, London, UK; 2 Cox Associates, Denver, CO; 3 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, and Livestock Information Services, Callaway, NE; 5 JMI Laboratories, North Liberty, IA; 6 Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut, 80 Seymour St., Hartford, CT 06102-5037; 7 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; 8 Sutton Veterinary Clinic, Sutton, NE, USA; 4 Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Keywords: antibiotics, animal husbandry, resistance
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Sir,
We would like to reply to some of the points made by John Turnidge1 in response to our recent paper on the potential risks to human health arising from the use of antibiotics in food animals,2 and another on the consequences of the ban of growth-promoting antibiotics in Europe.3
Firstly, he characterized our position as being
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