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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004 54(1):272; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh266
JAC vol.54 no.1 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; all rights reserved.

Correspondence

Antibiotic growth promoters

Peter Collignon*

Infectious Diseases Unit and Microbiology Department, The Canberra Hospital, PO Box 11, Woden, ACT 2607, Australia

Keywords: fluoroquinolones , growth promotion , antibiotics

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Sir,

I was dismayed to see that Phillips et al.1 were defending what nearly all microbiologists know are grave abuses of antibiotics—their continuous use in feed as growth promoters and the needless widespread use of broad spectrum agents (fluoroquinolones). This is despite their acknowledgement that ‘the more an antibiotic is used, the more likely are resistant populations to develop’ and that resistant bacteria can be spread to people via the food chain. They also comment that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

* Tel: +61-2-6244-2105; Fax: +61-2-6281-0349; E-mail: peter.collignon@act.gov.au


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