Antibiotic resistance in food animals nearly tripled since 2000

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), and the Free University of Brussels gathered nearly 1,000 publications and unpublished veterinary reports from around the world to create a map of antimicrobial resistance in low- to middle-income countries. They focused on the bacteria Escherichia coliCampylobacterSalmonella, and Staphylococcus aureus, all of which cause serious disease in animals and humans.