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. 2016 May 19;13(3):490–498. doi: 10.1007/s10393-016-1130-z

Table 3.

Description of the Antimicrobial Contents of Chicken and Pig Commercial Feeds Available in the Vietnamese Market.

Antimicrobial Antimicrobial class Chickens Pigs
Percent feeds containing (%) mg/kg (±SD) Percent feeds containing (%) mg/kg (±SD)
Unadjusted Adjusted [95% CI] Unadjusted Adjusted [95% CI]
Chlortetracyclineb Tetracycline 10.9 11.4 [7.4–15.5] 81.1 (±24.9) 29.8 23.9 [20.7–27.2] 62.2 (±15.2)
Bacitracinc Polypeptide 18.5 15.5 [10.9–20.1] 71.1 (±22.3) 13.2 24.7 [16.3–47.9] 42.2 (±12.8)
Colistina Polymyxin 6.9 7.4 [4.0–10.8] 71.6 (±15.2) 9.3 12.1 [8.9–15.2] 122.4 (±35.8)
Enramycin Polypeptide 8.0 10.8 [6.1–15.4] 13.2 (±3.8) 5.3 8.0 [5.4–10.7] 35.2 (±8.5)
Tylosin Macrolide 15.4 10.6 [8.4–12.9] 40.8 (±7.0)
Florfenicol Amphenicol 7.9 17.4 [13.3–21.4] 96.9 (±22.3)
Lincomycinc Lincosamides 1.1 1.33 [0.5–2.2] 4.0 (±0.0) 0.4 1.1 [0.2–2.0] 54.3 (±14.8)
Oxytetracyclineb Tetracycline 1.5 0.9 [0.3–1.5] 54.5 (±7.9)
Neomycina Aminoglycoside 0.7 0.9 [0.3–1.5] 100.0 (±0.0)
Tiamulin Pleuromutilin 0.3 0.2 [0–0.4] 119.0 (±3.8)
Avilamycin Orthosomycine 0.4 0.2 [0.01–0.6] 10.0 (±0.0) 0.7 0.3 [0.1–0.5] 10.0 (±0.0)
Amoxicillina β-lactam 0.7 1.1 [0.2–2.0] 212.0 (±42.5)
Halquinol Chlorhydroxyquinolone 0.01 0.1 [0–0.1] 180.0 (±0.0)
Tylvalosin Macrolide 0.1 0.3 [0–0.9] 100.0 (±0.0)
Any antimicrobial 42.2 48.6 [41.7–55. 6] 55.4 58.8 [54.4–63.2]

The quantitative data only refer to those products reporting the inclusion of each specific antimicrobial.

CI confidence interval.

aAntimicrobial ‘of critical importance.’

bAntimicrobial ‘of high importance.’

cAntimicrobial ‘of importance’ (according to WHO 2011).