Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Feces Following Prophylactic and Therapeutic Intramammary Antibiotic Infusion in Dairy Cattle
Prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic treatments have the potential to increase excretion of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by dairy cattle through selection pressure on the gut microbiome. The objective of these studies was to evaluate the effect of cephapirin benzathine administered prophyla...
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Virginia Tech
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24424 |