Poultry farms proliferating multi-drug resistant bacteria to environment
NEW DELHI: Misuse of antibiotics in poultry farms is leading to a proliferation of multi-drug resistant bacteria. To make matters worse, these bacteria are now spreading in the environment because of unsafe disposal of poultry litter and waste in agricultural fields and this has a potential to infect human beings, says a new study released Thursday.
The study – titled ‘Antibiotic Resistance in Poultry Environment’ – conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) pollution monitoring laboratory, collected samples of litter and soil from in and around 12 randomly selected poultry farms.
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