Epidemiology of Enterobacteriance resistance and prevailing conditions in pig farms in Ashanti Region of Ghana

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2013-08-25
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Pig production in Ghana is increasing at an unprecedented pace under intensive farming conditions. With this shift, farmers have adopted the use of antibiotics for the prophylaxis and treatment of pig diseases; creating a concern that their handling practices could affect the susceptibilities of pathogens to these antibiotics. Due to the public health hazard posed by the antibiotic handling practices of these farmers, a total of 110 pig farms from five districts within the Ashanti Region of Ghana were surveyed using......................
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Pharmaceutics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Philosophy,
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