Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Table 1 Antimicrobials most commonly mentioned or kept by the farmers surveyed^a

From: Antimicrobials in small-scale urban pig farming in a lower middle-income country – arbitrary use and high resistance levels

Antimicrobial	Number of farms
Amoxicillin^b	56
Ampicillin^b	21
Colistin^b	27
Enrofloxacin^b	19
Gentamicin^b	29
Lincomycin	14
Oxytetracycline	17
Penicillin G^b	15
Spectinomycin	6
Streptomycin^b	9
Sulfonamides	16
Thiamphenicol	6
Trimethoprim	9
Tylosin^b	38

^aThis list is not complete, as most farmers could only name a few of the antimicrobials that were used and it does not include potential antimicrobials in the feed concentrate
^bAntimicrobial considered critically important according to WHO [48]

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