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Northeast Iowa | From The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/antibiotics-use...
"New research suggests that a class of antibiotics commonly used in poultry and other food-producing animals, but not in people, could contribute to antibiotic-resistant infections in humans.
The antibiotic class in question is ionophores, which are used to treat the parasitic infection coccidiosis in poultry and to promote growth and prevent disease in pigs and cattle. Ionophores are one of several classes of antibiotics used in food-animal production that are considered non-medically important because they aren't used in human medicine, due to toxicity. Regulated less strictly than medically important antibiotics, ionophore use accounts for 37% of antibiotics used in food-producing animals on the United States."
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