Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100849
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Reduction of antibiotic usage in the commercial pig industry. This project intends to identify factors that make a pig enterprise more likely to use high levels of antibiotics and develop alternative, vaccination-based methods for disease control. The development of multi-drug resistance in zoonotic bacterial pathogens (e.g. Salmonella and Campylobacter spp.) in pigs has raised concerns that antimicrobial resistance can be transferred from livestock to humans. Although the epidemiology to support a claim that there is a causal association between antimicrobial use in food animals and public health is complex there is universal agreement that use of antimicrobials in food animal production should be minimised. This project intends to deliver outcomes that will reduce antibiotic use on commercial pig farms.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2016
End Date: 12-2016
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $191,400.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Veterinary Sciences | Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology) | Veterinary Epidemiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Pigs |
