Responsible use of antibiotics in aquaculture
As part of its FAO Fisheries Technical Papers series, the FAO Fisheries Department recently published "The responsible use of antibiotics in aquaculture" by Pilar Hernández Serrano, to raise awareness of the antibiotic resistance problem in fish farming and related sectors. The 97-page document focuses on antibiotics misuse and the concomitant threat of resistance development which is seen as a public health concern affecting the population worldwide. Aspects such as the toxicity and allergic effects of antibiotic residues, the mechanism of transmission of antimicrobial resistance and environmental impact are also taken into account. It also refers to the role of genomics and bioinformatics in the development of new antimicrobials and the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to study the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance. See
http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/009/a0282e/a0282e00.pdf or contact
[email protected] for more information.
