High dietary zinc feeding promotes persistence of multi-resistant E. coli in the swine gut.

High levels of zinc oxide are used frequently as feed additive in pigs to improve gut health and growth performance and are still suggested as an alternative to antimicrobial growth promoters. However, we have recently described an increase of multi-resistant E. coli in association to zinc feeding i...

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Main Authors: Lisa Ciesinski, Sebastian Guenther, Robert Pieper, Martin Kalisch, Carmen Bednorz, Lothar H Wieler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5786291?pdf=render