Farmers in Quebec voluntarily stopped using cephalosporins (…

Farmers in Quebec voluntarily stopped using cephalosporins (medically important antibiotics) in poultry production early in 2005.  Over the next two years, E. coli (green squares) and Salmonella (blue diamonds) were isolated from retail chicken and tested for cephalosporin (ceftiofur) resistance.  Levels of cephalosporin use in human medicine (gray bars) as well as cephalosporin resistance in human isolates (red X’s) was measured over the same period of time.  What can you conclude from these data?