International Mesopotamia Agriculture Congress, Diyarbakır, Türkiye, 22 Eylül 2014, ss.832-836
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