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Tool to measure antimicrobial use on farms
Author(s) -
Hyde Robert,
Green Martin,
Remnant John,
Down Peter,
Huxley Jon,
Davies Peers,
Hudson Chris,
Breen James
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.j823
Subject(s) - nottingham health profile , herd , medicine , veterinary medicine , library science , alternative medicine , computer science , pathology
ANTIMICROBIAL use in livestock continues to be a prominent topic in mainstream media and pressure to improve monitoring and reduce antimicrobial use is increasing across the livestock sector. The Government's response to the O'Neill report stated that Defra has committed to a reduction in antibiotic use in livestock and fish farmed for food, to a multispecies average of 50 mg/kg by 2018 (Department of Health 2016). There will be ongoing pressure to monitor and reduce antibiotic use at a farm and practice level.A variety of ways of measuring antimicrobial usage exist, the most common being mg of antimicrobials used per kg of livestock (mg/PCU [population corrected unit]), defined daily dose (DDDvet) or defined course dose (DCDvet). The last two methods are effectively an estimation of doses or courses of an …