RESISTANCE DECLINE IN BACTERIA FROM PIGS
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FIGURE 11.22 The use of macroclide antibiotics declined rapidly after Denmark’s 1998 ban on the use of antibiotics as growth stimulators. Following that decrease, the occurrence of resistance to macroclide antibiotics in the bacterium Campylobacter coli in pigs also decreased significantly. (Data from Pew Charitable Trusts, 2013)