The Antibiotic You Gave May Not Have Been Necessary. This Study Is Building the Science to Prove It
High-risk cattle arrive. You do not know which ones are going to get sick. You do know that bovine respiratory disease is the most economically devastating illness in the beef cattle industry, responsible for the majority of feedlot morbidity and mortality and an enormous share of production losses across the entire sector. You know that by the time a calf is showing clinical signs, the disease is already ahead of you.
Working together to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance
OHIS stands for One Health Integrated Surveillance, i.e. the monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the sense of a holistic, interdisciplinary One Health strategy. In addition to the BfR, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) are also involved in the network.
Super-resistant bacteria found in wild birds at a rehabilitation center on the coast of São Paulo state, Brazil
Researchers supported by FAPESP have found antibiotic-resistant bacterial clones in wild birds at a rehabilitation center. The identified Escherichia coli clones have been found in community- and hospital-acquired human infections worldwide, and they were present in the intestinal tracts of a vulture and an owl.