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Which of the following agricultural practices may promote antimicrobial drug resistance? To be marked correct, you'll need to select all applicable statements, as there may be more than one correct answer.

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Which of the following agricultural practices may promote antimicrobial drug resistance? To be marked correct, you'll need to select all applicable statements, as there may be more than one correct answer.

Use of manure-based fertilizers

Genetic engineering of cows to produce human hormones and other drugs

Use of manure-contaminated water

Including antimicrobials in animal feed

Answer 1

Antimicrobial drug resistance is the ability of microbes to grow in the presence of a drug that would normally kill them or limit their growth. Thus methods which may promote antimicrobial drug resistance are-

1. including antimicrobials in animal feed- Ingestion of antibiotics by animals results in the development of resistance in bacteria such as in the E. coli and Salmonella species.

2. Genetic engineering of cows to produce human hormones and other drugs.