Recent Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Mitigation in Global Poultry Industry
A special issue of Poultry (ISSN 2674-1164).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal nutrition; health; antioxidants; feed additives; aromatic and medicinal plants; alternative feedstuffs with bioactive compounds
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Interests: transboundry; zoonotic and emerging diseases of poultry; clinical poultry medicine; respiratory disease complex in poultry; food safety; antimicrobial resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To meet the increasing demands of chicken meat and eggs, the poultry industry is exponentially growing throughout the world. This has brought huge management and disease challenges, which have ultimately led to an increase in the usage of antimicrobials for growth promotion, improved feed efficiency, and preventing/treating diseases. Despite their important role, the improper use of antimicrobials in poultry farming is one of the major causes attributed to the increase in antimicrobial-resistant bacteria of public health importance, antimicrobial residues in chicken meat and eggs, and environmental contamination. To mitigate the AMR challenge, many countries around the world have banned the use of antibiotic growth promoters and are shifting towards antibiotic-free production. This has led the poultry industry to look for alternatives to antimicrobials. Although the usage of antimicrobials in poultry has been declining in Europe and America, antibiotic-free production is still a big challenge in many parts of the world. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to cover a wide range of research and review topics, including recent trends in antimicrobial resistance in the poultry industry, usage scenarios, levels of resistance, mitigation strategies, and alternatives to antimicrobials in poultry production.
Dr. Ilias Giannenas
Dr. Vasudevan Gowthaman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- AMR in poultry
- AMR mitigation
- alternatives to antibiotics
- AMR-free poultry production
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