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Of the six billion animals raised for human consumption in the United States yearly, most receive some antibiotics during their short lifetimes. In any one year, domestic food animals outnumber humans in the United States by more than five to one. These figures are important when we assess the effect that antibiotics have on the bacterial flora of these animals that not only share our environment, but also end up in our stomachs.
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Levy, S.B. (1992). Antibiotics, Animals, and the Resistance Gene Pool. In: The Antibiotic Paradox. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6042-9_6
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