Survey Shows Increase in Resistance to Drug Therapies Among Bovine Respiratory Disease Cases
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
An increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria that cause pneumonia in cattle prompted scientists at the Kansas State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory to survey records of pneumonia (also called bovine respiratory disease or BRD) cases over a three-year period. They discovered that drug resistance in one of the primary pathogens that cause BRD, Mannheimia haemolytica, increased over the three-year period 2009 to 2011.