Antibiotic resistance

The Agrarian

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Northern Ireland
I'm sure most of you will recognise this old timer. 157 day meat withdrawal these days, presumably why it disappeared off the shelves in favour of marbocyl.

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Long story short. Results back from a calf P.M. and lab culture revealed that the E. coli which killed it via navel ill is was resistant to 9/10 antibiotics tested. This being the one that can still challenge it. :nailbiting:

I haven't got my eyes directly on the report yet, but fairly sure it is resistant to some ABs not used on this farm. And we're a closed herd.
 

O'Reilly

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I'm sure most of you will recognise this old timer. 157 day meat withdrawal these days, presumably why it disappeared off the shelves in favour of marbocyl.

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Long story short. Results back from a calf P.M. and lab culture revealed that the E. coli which killed it via navel ill is was resistant to 9/10 antibiotics tested. This being the one that can still challenge it. :nailbiting:

I haven't got my eyes directly on the report yet, but fairly sure it is resistant to some ABs not used on this farm. And we're a closed herd.
Read something the other day about how you shouldn't really shake hands with anyone, particularly anyone who has travelled in India and south east asia, and always be washing your hands, because of the spread of multi resistant bacteria. Mostly it's the sorts that live on your skin harmlessly all the time, but kick off when you are ill with something else. The puddles in Delhi have resistant bacteria in them. How it got to your calf is anyone's guess. Very worrying.
 
Location
East Mids
Yeah, antibiotics can be bought willy nilly without a prescription in many parts of the world. Relieved that the mastitis we had recently was E coli only resistant to novobiocin and Klebsiella oxytoca only resistant to novobiocin and ampicillin.
 

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