Guide to Antimicrobial Use in Animals offers practical guidelines on the prudent and rational use of antimicrobials in animals.

Guide to Antimicrobial Use in Animals includes:

• issues such as human health risks
• the problems of resistance to antimicrobial drugs
• tables of the drugs of choice to be used to preserve the efficacy of clinically important antimicrobials

Contents

1. Principles of Prudent and Rational Antimicrobial Use in Animals
2. Human Health Risks Associated with Antimicrobial Use in Animals
3. Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Assessment
4. Clinical Importance of Antimicrobial Drugs in Human Medicine
5. Geographical Differences in Market Availability, Regulation and Use of Antimicrobial Products
6. Strategies to Minimize the Impact of Antimicrobial Treatment on the Selection of Resistant Bacteria
7. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Swine
8. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Poultry
9. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Ruminants
10. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Horses
11. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Dogs and Cats
12. Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Aquaculture

Index

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