Volume 10, Number 5—May 2004
Research
Antimicrobial Resistance in Commensal Flora of Pig Farmers
Hélène Aubry-Damon*, Karine Grenet†, Penda Sall-Ndiaye‡, Didier Che*, Eugenio Cordeiro*, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux¶, Emma Rigaud‡, Yann Le Strat*, Véronique Lemanissier*, Laurence Armand-Lefèvre†, Didier Delzescaux§, Jean-Claude Desenclos*, Michel Liénard‡, and Antoine Andremont†
Table 1
Total defined daily doses (DDD) of various classes of antimicrobial agents during the 6 months preceding participation in studya
| Antimicrobial agent |
Total DDD (no. participantsb) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pig farmers | Nonfarmers | |||||
| Penicillins (narrow-spectrum, broad-spectrum, and penicillinase resistant) |
138 |
(9) |
132 |
(9) |
||
| Cephalosporins |
53 |
(7) |
83 |
(9) |
||
| Macrolides and lincosamides |
67 |
(9) |
35 |
(6) |
||
| Others |
15 |
(3) |
67 |
(2) |
||
| Total | 273 | (25)b | 317 | (19)c | ||
aAs determined by health insurance reimbursements to pig farmers and nonfarmers.
bWho used any given type of antimicrobial agent.
cSome persons had multiple treatments.
