Unpacking factors influencing antimicrobial use in global aquaculture and their implication for management: a review from a systems perspective.

ABSTRACT: Global seafood provides almost 20% of all animal protein in diets, and aquaculture is, despite weakening trends, the fastest growing food sector worldwide. Recent increases in production have largely been achieved through intensification of existing farming systems, resulting in higher risks of disease outbreaks. This has led to increased use of antimicrobials (AMs) and consequent antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in many farming sectors, which may compromise the treatment of bacterial infections in the aquaculture species itself and increase the risks of AMR in humans through zoonotic diseases or through the transfer of AMR genes to human bacteria. Multiple stakeholders have, as a result, criticized the aquaculture industry, resulting in consequent regulations in some countries. AM use in aq

SUBMITTER: Henriksson PJG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086308 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature