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 (%) |
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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).