RF 19/6334 - FLUPOUL - Elucidating the causes of the high prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance in broilers Ghent University
Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry
Since the new legislation in 2016, the use of (fluoro)quinolones in livestock farming has fallen enormously, but unexpectedly high levels of fluoroquinolone resistance in E. coli are still found in broiler chicken farms. Within the FLUPOUL project, research is being done into the possible explanations for this. A cross-sectional study on broiler farms examines the extent to which the environment is a source for the spread of FQ resistance in ...