Historic perspective: Prebiotics, probiotics, and other alternatives to antibiotics ,

• DOI: 10.3382/ps.2010-01030
• Publication Date: 2011-10-18T21:52:24Z
• Authors: M.E. Hume
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; Biological Products; Plants, Medicinal; Probiotics; 0402 animal and dairy science; Bacterial Infections; 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences; History, 20th Century; Animal Feed; History, 21st Century; Poultry; Anti-Bacterial Agents; 3. Good health; Prebiotics; Bacteriocins; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Food Microbiology; Animals; Humans; Animal Husbandry; Poultry Diseases

Applications of antimicrobials in food production and human health have found favor throughout history. Antibiotic applications agricultural medical arenas resulted tremendous increases animal historically unprecedented gains protection. Successes attributed to widespread antibiotic use been accompanied by the inadvertent emergence antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A major problem associated with this emerging resistance is crossover some antibiotics settings as well prevention treatment disease. This outcome led calls restrict health-related production. Calls for restricted heightened existing searches alternatives that give similar or enhanced qualities highly reliable currently provided animals. Agricultural scientific advances, mainly within last 100 yr, given us insights into sources, structures, actions materials application our modern world. The purpose presentation provide a historic perspective on search what are generally known alternative antimicrobials, probiotics, prebiotics, bacteriophages, bacteriocins, phytotherapeutics.