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Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: From Farms to Forks and Beyond

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Author
David Wallinga, M.D.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

We live in a world where drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ are getting meaner and more common. These superbugs used to be found almost exclusively in hospitals in the form of life-threatening infections. They are now popping up in communities among healthy children and adults.

Resources
On the Web!: 
Keep Antibiotics Working
Footnotes/Endnotes

Resources:

  • Keep Antibiotics Working
    www.KeepAntibioticsWorking.org
  • National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System
    www.cdc.gov/NARMS
  • These articles can be found online at:
    www.keepantibioticsworking.org
  • World Health Organization. Impacts of Antimicrobial Growth Promoter Termination in Denmark, report number WHO/CDS/CPE/ZFK/2003.1. 2003.
  • National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine Global Board on Health, Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, National Academies Press, 2003.
  • Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
    Food and Health Program
    Minneapolis, MN
    612-870-3456
    www.iatp.org/foodandhealth
  • Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
    Starbuck, MN, 866-760-8732
    www.sfa-mn.org
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