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China's rampant antibiotic use could promote resistance to all major classes of antibiotics

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Unmonitored antibiotic use on animal farms in China could prompt the vast emergence and release of diverse antibiotic resistance genes into the environment, a study suggests. China is the largest antibiotics producer and consumer in the world; however, the nation's use of antibiotics to treat livestock illness and promote animal growth is unmonitored.

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