ABSTRACT
Biosecurity is one of the main factors affecting disease occurrence and antimicrobial use. However, the importance of specific measures could vary depending on the national context. The objectives of this study was to describe the biosecurity status in the pig and poultry production...
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Introduction
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Liu et al. (2020) proposed a concept that, under the presence of antibiotc tolerance background, the appearane of antibiotic resistance will be faster which lead to the collapse of antibiotic treatment in human beings. This concept has been supported by the in vivo and in vitro experiment results conducted by Liu et al. (2020).
Other than human beings, agricultural activities such as livestock, aquaculture, and dairy farming also correlate with issues of antibiotic abuse, especialy in the Asian-Pacific region. The concepts of biosecurity and knowledge of antibiotic to safeguard the food security and farmers' welfare rely on the joint effort among government, private sectors, and producers along the production value chain.
In Vietnam, the government sector has adopted Bio-check technoogy to monitor and assess biosecurity level in swine and poultry production system. The primary result showed such a biosecurity surveillance can preserve the health of animals and expect to include more involvement of swine/poultry farmers to identify relationship between between biosecutiry and antimicrobial use.
In the future, more inter-disciplinary efforts, cross-sector collaborations, and international institutes shall come out with a systematic and integrated solution toward this structured issues.