Süt Sığırcılığı Yapılan İşletmelerde Antibiyotik Kullanımı ve Halk Sağlığına Olası Etkileri

Abstract: In parallel with the rapidly growing human populations in the developing world, the intensive dairies

began to be established in a very intense in order to meet the needs of animal-derived proteins in addition to

small-scale dairy farms. It has been determined that particularly the intensive use beta-lactam groups of

antibiotics and in other groups of antibiotics provide in bacteria multiple resistance development and contribute

to the spread of the resistance genes, and cause the developments of antimicrobial resistances on foodborne and

zoonotic pathogens which are very important in terms of public health and the growth residual risk. While the

economic burden of antimicrobial resistance development which formed on milk production and animal

husbandry done with many other purposes cannot be determined exactly, ıts costs at the level social and

individual have been revealed to be very high due to the infections caused by especially multiple antimicrobial

resistant bacteria. Accordingly, as of the beginning of the 2000s, the international strategic plan which

emphasize to the need of acting all sectors together has been developed by World Health Organization for the

prevention development of resistance, and in this context, the various programs is made to monitor the

development of resistance. The risks of antimicrobial resistance formations can be limited through these

programs, and that the antibiotics which can risk to what the extent human health may be introduced.

It has been noted that to minimize the formations of multiple antimicrobial resistant bacteria are essential in

the dairy farms to protect the public health from infections caused by such microorganisms. To achieve this, the

use of antibiotics in dairy farms should be considered in a broad context, should be given utmost importance to

the conscious use; avoided extreme, intense and misuse. Antibiotics should be used according to the antibiogram

results as possible and the fields of indication specified in the prospectus, and in the treatment, narrow-spectrum

antibiotics should be given priority. A continuous control against diseases should be provided, brought to the

forefront of preventive medicine, the records of used antibiotics should be kept and the legal withdrawal times of

antibiotics in meat and milk taken into consideration. In addition, the national antimicrobial resistance

monitoring programs for dairy farms should be developed, followed such enterprises and determined ones which

cause a risk for public health.

Keywords: Dairy cattle, antimicrobial resistance, public health