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Comment on: Effect of a 5 day enrofloxacin treatment on Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 in the pig

Comment on: Effect of a 5 day enrofloxacin treatment on Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium... Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh370 JAC Advance Access publication 12 August 2004 Comment on: Effect of a 5 day enrofloxacin weeks later than the age at which the experimental trial was fin- ished. It is therefore erroneous and highly misleading to state treatment on Salmonella enterica serotype that this trial gives direct evidence that enrofloxacin-treated pigs Typhimurium DT104 in the pig could be entering abattoirs with higher numbers of quinolone- 1 2 Peter Silley * and Robrecht Froyman resistant bacteria compared with untreated pigs thereby increas- ing the risk of quinolone-resistant zoonotic bacteria entering the 1 2 food chain. MB Consult Limited, Bingley, UK; Bayer HealthCare AG, The authors make no reference to the fact that the trial was Animal Health Division, Leverkusen, Germany performed in young weaner pigs, at an age at which the intesti- nal flora is still very immature. Indeed, Belœil et al. make the Keywords: antibiotics, animal husbandry, resistance point that there is little information about the age of contami- nation by ubiquitous Salmonella serotypes of growing pigs in *Corresponding author. Tel: +44-1274-551818; subclinically infected herds and that longitudinal studies follow- E-mail: p-s@mbconsult.com ing the bacteriological and serological status of pigs should be carried http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Oxford University Press

Comment on: Effect of a 5 day enrofloxacin treatment on Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 in the pig

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Oxford University Press
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JAC vol.54 no.3 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; all rights reserved.
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0305-7453
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1460-2091
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10.1093/jac/dkh370
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh370 JAC Advance Access publication 12 August 2004 Comment on: Effect of a 5 day enrofloxacin weeks later than the age at which the experimental trial was fin- ished. It is therefore erroneous and highly misleading to state treatment on Salmonella enterica serotype that this trial gives direct evidence that enrofloxacin-treated pigs Typhimurium DT104 in the pig could be entering abattoirs with higher numbers of quinolone- 1 2 Peter Silley * and Robrecht Froyman resistant bacteria compared with untreated pigs thereby increas- ing the risk of quinolone-resistant zoonotic bacteria entering the 1 2 food chain. MB Consult Limited, Bingley, UK; Bayer HealthCare AG, The authors make no reference to the fact that the trial was Animal Health Division, Leverkusen, Germany performed in young weaner pigs, at an age at which the intesti- nal flora is still very immature. Indeed, Belœil et al. make the Keywords: antibiotics, animal husbandry, resistance point that there is little information about the age of contami- nation by ubiquitous Salmonella serotypes of growing pigs in *Corresponding author. Tel: +44-1274-551818; subclinically infected herds and that longitudinal studies follow- E-mail: p-s@mbconsult.com ing the bacteriological and serological status of pigs should be carried

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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy – Oxford University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2004

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