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WHO GUIDELINES ON USE OF MEDICALLY IMPORTANT ANTIMICROBIALS IN FOOD-PRODUCING ANIMALS : Policy brief / World Health Organization Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemotherapy--veterinary.
- Chemotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, 2017.
- Summary:
- Overuse and misuse of antibiotics in animals and humans is contributing to the rising threat of antibiotic resistance. Some types of bacteria that cause serious infections in humans have already developed resistance to most or all of the available treatments, and there are very few promising options in the research pipeline. If no action is taken today, by 2050, almost all current antibiotics will be ineffective in preventing and treating human disease, and the costs of losing these drugs will exceed US 100 trillion dollar in terms of national productivity. This underscores the slogan of the World Health Day on antimicrobial resistance launched by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011, "No action today, no cure tomorrow".
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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