Antibiotic-free method to protect animals from common infections

A herd of cattle or a flock of chickens may appear very bucolic, but they're actually ground zero for an ongoing arms race between scientists and disease-causing bacteria. Antibiotics have been a major weapon in the fight against animal infection, but they've also sparked evolutionary forces that create drug-resistant bacteria that render those very antibiotics ineffective, posing a major risk to animals and humans alike. Now a University of Wisconsin-Madison team is developing a method of fighting a major group of animal infections without antibiotics... Continue Reading Antibiotic-free method to protect animals from common infections

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags:

• University of Wisconsin
• Agriculture
• Infections
• Antibiotic
• Bacteria

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