Prioritising antibiotic selection in farm animal practice

Abstract

In many countries huge inroads have been made towards more responsible prescribing across all livestock sectors in recent years. The European Medicine Agency's categorisation of antibiotics can now be used by veterinarians as a tool to further focus efforts on reducing — and even ceasing — the use of antibiotics that are important to human health and redoubling efforts towards responsible prescribing across all antibiotic use in food producing species.