An ecological perspective on U.S. industrial poultry production: the role of anthropogenic ecosystems on the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria from agricultural environments

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• Personal Author:
  Davis MF ; Liu CM-H ; Price LB ; Silbergeld EK
• Description:
  The industrialization of food animal production, specifically the widespread use of antimicrobials, not only increased pressure on microbial populations, but also changed the ecosystems in which antimicrobials and bacteria interact. In this review, we argue that industrial food animal production (IFAP) is appropriately defined as an anthropogenic ecosystem. This paper uses an ecosystem perspective to frame an examination of these changes in the context of U.S. broiler chicken production. This perspective emphasizes multiple modes by which IFAP has altered microbiomes and also suggests a means of generating hypotheses for understanding and predicting the ecological impacts of IFAP in terms of the resistome and the flow of resistance within and between microbiomes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Animal Husbandry Animals Ecology Food-Processing Industry Food Additives Food Handling Food Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Microbiology Occupational Health Safety

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• Keywords:
  Animal-husbandry Antibacterial-agents Bacteria Drugs Ecological-systems Food Food-additives Food-processing Food-processing-industry Industrial-engineering Industrial-environment Microorganisms Pharmacology Poultry Poultry-industry

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• ISSN:
  1369-5274
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  244-250
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039770
• Citation:
  Curr Opin Microbiol 2011 Jun; 14(3):244-250
• Contact Point Address:
  Meghan F. Davis, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
• Email:
  mdavis@jhsph.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Current Opinion in Microbiology
• End Date:
  20150831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9d25ee379c71a2d708db20a1bee9f07acc61ecfb2b294a133da835ea214c6749ecb3ed7454ed962798a4b8237ea987a24c81d5d78781d4a1bf7111d8e0eb8b49
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192881/cdc_192881_DS1.pdf
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