Eurosurveillance - Volume 2, Issue 3, 01 March 1997

A general increase in antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria is causing concern worldwide that the widespread use of antimicrobial agents in animal production may promote the development of resistant bacteria or resistance genes that can be tr

The World Health Organisation has recently pointed out an alarming increase in the incidence of antibiotic resistant strains of Salmonella, which are due to the use of antibiotics in intensive breeding. In France, until recent years, no or few cases of a

Concern about possible transfer of bacterial resistance to antibiotics from animals to humans is growing at an international level. This is illustrated by the ban of avoparcin use as a growth promoter in livestock which will take effect in the European Un

The number of isolates of Salmonella anatum from infants (aged 1 to 11 months) in England and Wales was higher than expected in November and December 1996 and early January. The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens (LEP)