TY - JOUR
T1 - An ecological perspective on U.S. industrial poultry production
T2 - The role of anthropogenic ecosystems on the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria from agricultural environments
AU - Davis, Meghan F.
AU - Price, Lance B.
AU - Liu, Cindy Meng Hsin
AU - Silbergeld, Ellen K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research described in this paper was supported by grants from National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( 5R21OH009829 ), and from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future . MFD additionally was supported by a Sommer Scholarship from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and CL additionally was supported by a Scholar Award from Philanthropic Education Organization International.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - The industrialization of food animal production, specifically the widespread use of antimicrobials, not only increased pressure on microbial populations, but also changed the ecosystems in which antimicrobials and bacteria interact. In this review, we argue that industrial food animal production (IFAP) is appropriately defined as an anthropogenic ecosystem. This paper uses an ecosystem perspective to frame an examination of these changes in the context of U.S. broiler chicken production. This perspective emphasizes multiple modes by which IFAP has altered microbiomes and also suggests a means of generating hypotheses for understanding and predicting the ecological impacts of IFAP in terms of the resistome and the flow of resistance within and between microbiomes.
AB - The industrialization of food animal production, specifically the widespread use of antimicrobials, not only increased pressure on microbial populations, but also changed the ecosystems in which antimicrobials and bacteria interact. In this review, we argue that industrial food animal production (IFAP) is appropriately defined as an anthropogenic ecosystem. This paper uses an ecosystem perspective to frame an examination of these changes in the context of U.S. broiler chicken production. This perspective emphasizes multiple modes by which IFAP has altered microbiomes and also suggests a means of generating hypotheses for understanding and predicting the ecological impacts of IFAP in terms of the resistome and the flow of resistance within and between microbiomes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21621451
AN - SCOPUS:79959294115
SN - 1369-5274
VL - 14
SP - 244
EP - 250
JO - Current Opinion in Microbiology
JF - Current Opinion in Microbiology
IS - 3
ER -