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Santinello M, Diana A, De Marchi M, et al. Promoting Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Beef Production: The Role of Quarantine. Animals (Basel). 2022;12(1)doi: 10.3390/ani12010116.
Santinello, M., Diana, A., De Marchi, M., Scali, F., Bertocchi, L., Lorenzi, V., Alborali, G. L., & Penasa, M. (2022). Promoting Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Beef Production: The Role of Quarantine. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 12(1), . https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12010116
Santinello, Matteo, et al. "Promoting Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Beef Production: The Role of Quarantine." Animals : an open access journal from MDPI vol. 12,1 (2022). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12010116
Santinello M, Diana A, De Marchi M, Scali F, Bertocchi L, Lorenzi V, Alborali GL, Penasa M. Promoting Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Beef Production: The Role of Quarantine. Animals (Basel). 2022 Jan 04;12(1). doi: 10.3390/ani12010116. PMID: 35011224.
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Animals (Basel). 2022 Jan 04;12(1). doi: 10.3390/ani12010116.

Promoting Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Beef Production: The Role of Quarantine.

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Matteo Santinello, Alessia Diana, Massimo De Marchi, Federico Scali, Luigi Bertocchi, Valentina Lorenzi, Giovanni Loris Alborali, Mauro Penasa

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro, VEN, Italy.
  2. Sector Diagnostic and Animal Health, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna 'Bruno Ubertini' (IZSLER), 25124 Brescia, LOM, Italy.
  3. Italian National Reference Center for Animal Welfare (CReNBA), Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna 'Bruno Ubertini' (IZSLER), 25124 Brescia, LOM, Italy.

PMID: 35011224 DOI: 10.3390/ani12010116

Abstract

Judicious antimicrobial stewardship in livestock industry is needed to reduce the use of antimicrobials (AMU) and the associated risk of antimicrobial resistance. Biosecurity measures are acknowledged for their role against the spread of diseases and the importance in reducing AMU in different species. However, their effectiveness in beef production has been scarcely considered. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the quarantine strategy on AMU in beef cattle. A total of 1206 Charolaise animals in five farms were included in the trial. Roughly half of the animals followed the standard procedure of the fattening cycle (no-quarantine; NO-QUA group) and half followed a 30-day period of quarantine (QUA group) since their arrival. Performance and antimicrobial data were recorded and a treatment incidence 100 (TI100it) per animal was calculated. Penicillins was the most used class of antimicrobials. Differences between groups were significant for males only, with NO-QUA group having greater TI100it (3.76 vs. 3.24;

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; beef cattle; biosecurity; treatment incidence

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