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Week 5: How antibiotic resistance has become such a big problem

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This figure consists of an infographic from the O’Neill Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (2016). It illustrates how antibiotics are used in animals. In healthy animals antibiotics are used in low doses for growth promotion and at higher doses for prevention of disease (prophylaxis). In sick animals high doses of antibiotics are used for the treatment of disease.