Treatment, promotion, commotion: antibiotic alternatives in
food-producing animals Treatment, promotion, commotion:
antibiotic alternatives in food-producing animalsA call for
antibiotic alternatives research Trends in Microbiology, Volume
21, Issue 3, Publication Date 1 March 2013 Copyright © 2012 All
rights reserved. Heather K. Allen Uri Y. Levine Thomas A. Casey
Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal
Disease Center, ARS/USDA, 1920 Dayton Ave, Ames, IA, 50010, USA
► Antibiotics need to be used more prudently both in human
medicine and in animal agriculture. ► Antibiotics in agriculture
are more likely to be replaced by multiple substitutes or
combined approaches. ► High-throughput technologies could help
to inform the design of antibiotic alternatives. Alternatives to
antibiotics are urgently needed in animal agriculture. The form
these alternatives should take presents a complex problem due to
the various uses of antibiotics in animal agriculture, including
disease treatment, dise