Models of antimicrobial resistance and foodborne illness: examining assumptions and practical applications
DA Barber, GY Miller, PE Mcnamara�- Journal of food protection, 2003 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance is an issue of increasing global concern. Several investigators have
suggested that antibiotic use in food-producing animals is a major contributor to the
increasing incidence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms causing illness in humans (FJ
Angulo, KR Johnson, RV Tauxe, and ML Cohen, Microb. Drug Res. 6: 77–83, 2000; PD Fey,
TJ Safranek, ME Rupp, EF Dunne, R. Efrain, PC Iwen, PA Bradford, FJ Angulo, and SH
Hinrichs, N. Engl. J. Med. 342: 1242–1249, 2000; SA McEwen and PJ Fedorka-Cray�…
suggested that antibiotic use in food-producing animals is a major contributor to the
increasing incidence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms causing illness in humans (FJ
Angulo, KR Johnson, RV Tauxe, and ML Cohen, Microb. Drug Res. 6: 77–83, 2000; PD Fey,
TJ Safranek, ME Rupp, EF Dunne, R. Efrain, PC Iwen, PA Bradford, FJ Angulo, and SH
Hinrichs, N. Engl. J. Med. 342: 1242–1249, 2000; SA McEwen and PJ Fedorka-Cray�…