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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004 54(1):271; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh267
JAC vol.54 no.1 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; all rights reserved.

Correspondence

Factual errors in review article

Linda Tollefson*

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 7519 Standish Place, Rockville, MD 20878, USA

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance , animal agriculture

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Sir,

The recent article in JAC by Phillips et al.1 contains several factual errors. The authors contend that pathogens that become resistant due to the use of antimicrobial agents in food-producing animals rarely infect humans and when they do, the clinical consequences of resistance may be small. This assessment diverges from the majority of the peer-reviewed scientific literature on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

* Tel: +1-301-827-2943; Fax: +1-301-827-4335; Email: ltollefs@cvm.fda.gov


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