Agreement of Benchmarking High Antimicrobial Usage Farms Based on Either Animal Treatment Index or Number of National Defined Daily Doses

Introduction: While treatment frequency as an indicator of antimicrobial consumption is often assessed using defined doses, it can also be calculated directly as an Animal Treatment Index (ATI). In this study, the correlation of calculating antimicrobial usage on Swiss pig farms using either nationa...

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Main Authors: Dolf Kuemmerlen, Thomas Echtermann, Cedric Muentener, Xaver Sidler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2020.00638/full