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This is completely incorrect, nations that have halted agricultural mass application of antibiotics have seen a huge decrease in antibiotic resistant bacterial
by throwaway2048 13y ago
This is completely incorrect, nations that have halted agricultural mass application of antibiotics have seen a huge decrease in antibiotic resistant bacterial present in the animals.
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ID/ID-420-W.pdf https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ID/ID-420-W.pdf
This is because antibiotic resistance has a high biological cost to the bacteria, and they get out competed by bacteria without that adaptation when antibiotics cease being present.