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. 2020 Jul 8;7:329. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00329

Table 2.

Percentage of farms reporting the use of different antimicrobial active ingredients by production type (in 33 backyard farms and 60 commercial farms).

Antimicrobial class Antimicrobial active ingredient Backyard farms n (%) Commercial farms n (%)
Aminoglycosides Apramycin 1 (3%) 0 (0%)
Gentamicin 2 (6%) 5 (8%)
Neomycin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Streptomycin 2 (6%) 2 (3%)
Cephalosporins Ceftiofur 0 (0%) 2 (3%)
Cephalexin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Fluoroquinolones Ciprofloxacin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Danofloxacin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Enrofloxacin 8 (24%) 24 (40%)
Levofloxacin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Norfloxacin 0 (0%) 13 (22%)*
Lincosamides and aminocyclitols Lincomycin 0 (0%) 3 (5%)
Lincomycin-spectinomycin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Macrolides Erythromycin 0 (0%) 3 (5%)
Kitasamycin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Tilmicosin 1 (3%) 5 (8%)
Tulathromycin 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Tylosin 6 (18%) 10 (17%)
Penicillins Amoxicillin 1 (3%) 18 (30%)*
Penicillin 1 (3%) 1 (2%)
Phenicols Florfenicol 1 (3%) 8 (13%)
Thiamphenicol 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
Phosphonic acid derivatives Fosfomycin 0 (0%) 4 (7%)
Pleuromutilins Tiamulin 2 (6%) 10 (17%)
Polypeptides Colistin 1 (3%) 10 (17%)*
Tetracyclines Chlortetracycline 1 (3%) 1 (2%)
Doxycycline 5 (15%) 12 (20%)
Oxytetracycline 13 (39%) 7 (12%)*
Trimethoprim and sulfonamides Trimetoprim-sulfadiazine 3 (9%) 4 (7%)
Trimetoprim-sulfamethoxazole 0 (0%) 2 (3%)
*

Significant differences between backyard and commercial farms (P ≤ 0.05), Fisher exact test (represented in bold fonts).