Antibiotic Use in Organic and Non-organic Swedish Dairy Farms: A Comparison of Three Recording Methods.

ABSTRACT: Biases of antimicrobial use (AMU) reporting systems pose a challenge to monitoring of AMU. Our study aimed to cross-compare three data sources of AMU in Swedish dairy herds to provide an account of the validity of AMU reports. We studied AMU differences between two production systems, to investigate how the reporting system affected this comparison. On-farm quantification of AMU via a manual collection of empty drug containers (BIN) took place in organic (n = 30) and conventional (n = 30) dairy herds during two periods between February 2016 and March 2017. A data extract mirroring these periods was obtained from two linked datasets that contain AMU data as reported by the prescribing veterinarians. These included data from the Swedish Board of Agriculture system (SBA) and Väx

SUBMITTER: Olmos Antillon G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673384 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature