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- noun A third-generation
cephalosporin antibiotic used inveterinary medicine.
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Examples
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The incidence of the resistant strain increased in both chickens and humans during 2003 and 2004, when an antibiotic called ceftiofur was being widely used in
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Without these compounds -- oxytetracycline, draxxin, ceftiofur, tiamulin -- diseases would likely kill them.
Deirdre Imus: Beyond Swine Flu - Could Factory Farms Be the Cause of the Next Man-Made Pandemic? 2009
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In the new study, 43 percent of tainted chicken hosted ceftiofur, an antibiotic approved for use on chickens as young as one-day old.
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews 2010
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Discs, obtained from Oxoid UK, were used at the following strengths: ampicillin, 10 µg; amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, 30 µg; oxytetracycline, 30 µg; ceftiofur, 30 µg; enrofloxacin, 5 µg; streptomycin 10 µg; sulphonamide-trimethoprim, 25 µg.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles I. Martin Sheldon et al. 2010
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Discs, obtained from Oxoid UK, were used at the following strengths: ampicillin, 10 µg; amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, 30 µg; oxytetracycline, 30 µg; ceftiofur, 30 µg; enrofloxacin, 5 µg; streptomycin 10 µg; sulphonamide-trimethoprim, 25 µg.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles I. Martin Sheldon et al. 2010
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Administration of ceftiofur or aminoglycoside antimicrobials in hospitalized horses (this might be related to conditions / weakened immune systems requiring antimicrobials, rather than the antimicrobials themselves).
TheHorse.com News 2009
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The latest data for Ontario, released in March, shows that there was a spike in ceftiofur resistance in humans and chickens.
Macleans.ca Cathy Gulli 2009
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When farmers stopped using ceftiofur briefly due to a short voluntary ban by CIPARS, there was a massive drop in cephalosporin resistance in salmonella samples taken from humans and retail poultry, says the CMAJ.
Macleans.ca Cathy Gulli 2009
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Critics argue that the CIPARS data doesn't provide sufficient evidence of a link between ceftiofur and rising human resistance.
Macleans.ca Cathy Gulli 2009
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