Publications by authors named "Bo Ve Hien"

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  • * A longitudinal study analyzed 102 small-scale chicken farms in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, focusing on the types and quantities of antimicrobial active ingredients (AAIs) used, critical times for AMU, and comparisons across three metrics: mg/kg at treatment, mg/kg sold, and treatment incidence (TI).
  • * The study found 236 products with 42 different AAIs; 76.2% were of "critical importance" per WHO guidelines, revealing a high use of antimicro
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Background: Antimicrobials are used by poultry farmers in Vietnam as a tool to treat and prevent infectious diseases. We aimed to determine the fraction of disease episodes likely to remain untreated due to the administration of antimicrobials on non-susceptible pathogens in chicken flocks in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Weekly data on antimicrobial use and clinical signs were collected from 88 randomly chosen chicken flocks over 124 full production cycles (i.

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