The accelerated growth of finfish aquaculture has resulted in a series of developments
detrimental to the environment and human health. The latter is illustrated by the widespread …

Aquaculture is the productive activity that will play a crucial role in the challenges of the
millennium, such as the need for proteins that support humans and the respect for the …

The worldwide growth of aquaculture has been accompanied by a rapid increase in
therapeutic and prophylactic usage of antimicrobials including those important in human …

Drug resistance in bacteria, and especially resistance to multiple antibacterials, has
attracted much attention in recent years. In addition to the well known mechanisms, such as …

Intensive use of antimicrobial agents in aquaculture provides a selective pressure creating
reservoirs of drug-resistant bacteria and transferable resistance genes in fish pathogens and …

Emerging infectious diseases, most of which are considered zoonotic in origin, continue to
exact a significant toll on society. The origins of major human infectious diseases are …

The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AR) in bacteria isolated from US food animals
has increased over the last several decades as have concerns of AR foodborne zoonotic …

Antimicrobials used in salmon aquaculture pass into the marine environment. This could
have negative impacts on marine environmental biodiversity, and on terrestrial animal and …

Two major changes in the epidemiology of salmonellosis occurred in the second half of the
20th century: the emergence of food-borne human infections caused by S. Enteritidis and by …

The effects of simultaneous expression of several efflux pumps on antibiotic resistance were
investigated in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Several combinations of …