Ashley Abernathey's annotated bibliography

Couric, K. (2010, February 9). Animal Antibiotic Overuse Hurting Humans? Katie Couric Investigates Feeding Healthy Farm Animals Antibiotics. Is it Creating New Drug-Resistant Bacteria? CBS Evening News. New York, New York. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/09/eveningnews/main6191530.shtml?source=related_story&tag=related.

Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor, talks with employees at a hatchery in Arkansas who suffered from MSRA. She also interviews Shelley Hearne who has studied the health effects of factory farming for 25 years, Liz Wagstrom who is a veterinarian with the National Pork Board, Joshua Sharfstein who is the deputy director of the FDA, as well as a couple more hog farm workers. They discuss the emerging health crisis of drug resistant bacteria.

Dibner, J.J., Richards, J.D. (2005). Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Agriculture: History and Mode of Action. 84(4), 634-643. Retrieved from http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/84/4/634.

This review by authors, Dibner and Richards, is a thorough overview of the history of antibiotic growth promoters used in livestock, concerns about development of antimicrobial resistance, and response taken in the European Union and United States to these concerns.

Drovers news source. (2010, January 11). Misguided, biased reporting on livestock antibiotics. Retrieved from http://www.drovers.com/news_editorial.asppgID=675&ed_id=6714.

The Animal Agricultural Alliance (AAA) was upset with the Associated Press article titled "Pressure Rises to Stop Antibiotics in Agriculture." Released on Dec. 29. The AAA stated that the article is biased and portrayed America’s food producers in a negative way. They bring up the biases discussed in the article and explain the other side.

Gutierrez, D. (2010, October 22). Antibiotics used in meat pose a threat to public health, admits FDA. Natural News. Retrieved from http://www.naturalnews.com/030132_antibiotics_meat.html.

Staff writer of Natural News, David Gutierrez, interviews FDA Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein on antibiotics used in livestock and how it’s affecting the health of the public. They also discuss the draft of new guidelines issued by the FDA urging meat producers to refrain from using antibiotics to promote livestock growth. Also included in this article are comments from the public about these recommendations.

Jutzi, S. (2204). Antibiotics growth-promoters in food animals. In Assessing quality and safety of animal feeds (129-149). Retrieved from http://books.google.com/

This book includes a paper about the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in livestock. It goes over the benefits of this as well as discusses alternative options to improve the quality of meat.

Khachatourians, G.G., (1998). Agricultural use of antibiotics and the evolution and transfer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 159(9), 1129-1136. Retrieved from http://www.ecmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/159/9/1129.

In this review, the author examines the trends in antibiotic use in livestock and agriculture. He describes how resistance evolves along with the genetic mechanisms that create resistance and facilitate its spread among bacterial species. He emphasizes certain aspects of bacterial resistance that are common in both animals and humans. He also goes over control measures that may help to reduce this rise in resistance.

Kumar, K., Gupta, S.C., Baidoo, S.K., Chander, Y., Rosen, C.J. (2005). Antibiotic Uptake by Plants from Soil Fertilized with Animal Manure. Journal of Environmental Quality. 34(6), 2082-2085. doi: 10.2134/jeq2005.0026.

The authors conducted a study to determine whether or not plants absorbed antibiotics from manure when grown in manure-applied soil. Organic farmers heavily use manure, so the authors are trying to find out the potential human health risks associated with food grown in antibiotic rich manure.

Mason, M. and Mendoza, M. (2009). Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat: Animals routinely fed antibiotics harbor virulent germs that jump to people. The Associated Press. Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34614380.

The authors interviewed a pig farmer, Russ Kramer, who was diagnosed with a strep infection in his leg after being stabbed in the knee by his boar. It took two months to find an antibiotic that would cure him. His pigs were raised on antibiotics and they were all resistant to the same antibiotics as their caregiver, Russ. Another farmer was also interviewed as well as a doctor about antibiotic use in livestock.

Phillips, I., Casewell, M., Cox, T., Groot, B.D., Frii, C. (2004). Does the use of antibiotics in food animals pose a risk to human health? A critical review of published data. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 53(1), 28-52. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkg483.

The authors wrote this article as an overview of already published studies. The purpose of this review was to educate The Animal Health Institute on scientific aspects of antibiotic use in livestock and also to consult pharmaceutical companies on the use of antibiotics in animals and humans. They discuss specific cases of zoonotic salmonellosis, campylobacter, and Escherichia coli.

Wolfgang, W. (2000). Ecological impact of antibiotic use in animals on different complex microflora: environment. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 14(4), 321-325. doi: 10.1016/S0924-8579(00)00144-8

The author discusses how the transfer of resistant bacteria and their resistant genes may co-occur with various methods of interaction between micro-ecological systems in different animal hosts and the environment. He goes over the numerous ways that resistance can be spread.