Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Effective Livestock Production with Low Use of Antibiotics
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
This online course describes what antibiotic resistance is and how to prevent it while increasing productivity among livestock. The course explains what antibiotics are and what antibiotic resistance is. You will learn the basics of infectious disease prevention in livestock and how one should use antibiotics prudently and efficiently in livestock. Finally, you will learn how to combine disease prevention and prudent use of antibiotics for livestock to sustain their health and productivity.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Ulf Magnusson
Professor, DVM, PhD
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain what antibiotics are and why antibiotic resistance develops on a basic level, and how antibiotic resistance affects animals and humans.
- Demonstrate understanding of the basics of infectious disease prevention.
- Identify simple measures that can be implemented on your farm, to reduce the need of antibiotics while sustaining (or increasing) livestock production.
- Explain when it is appropriate to use antibiotics and how to use them.
- Summarise how one can combine disease preventive measures and prudent use of antibiotics for productive and healthy animals on your farm.
- Reflect on what you and (other) livestock producers around the world think about the subject, and what differences and similarities there are.
Syllabus
- What antibiotics are and what they are used for
- What antibiotic resistance is, how it develops and why it is a problem
- Basics of infectious disease prevention
- When and how we should use antibiotics prudently and efficiently in livestock production
- How to combine disease preventive measures and prudent use of antibiotics for livestock to sustain their health and productivity
- The economic possibilities in applying disease preventive measures
Issued on 10th December 2019
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