Can Improved Farm Biosecurity Reduce the Need for Antimicrobials in Food Animals? A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Limited and judicious antimicrobial usage (AMU) is considered the key to saving the success of human and veterinary medicine in treating infections. With the limited alternatives for antimicrobials, farm biosecurity (and herd management) is considered a promising tool to mitigate the non-judicious AMU and to maintain animal health, production, and welfare. The present scoping review aims to analyse the effect of farm biosecurity on AMU in livestock systems and formulate recommendations. Peer-reviewed manuscripts published between 2001-2022 were analyzed using the PRISMA framework using PubMed, Scopus, and Science Direct databases. After applying the inclusion criteria, 27 studies were found to assess the effect of farm biosecurity (or management practices) on AMU at the herd/farm level in

SUBMITTER: Dhaka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10215210 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature