An antibiotic that is routinely fed to livestock as a growth promoter and that may contribute to antibiotic resistance in humans.
Example sentencesExamples
Currently, many antibiotics, such as tylosin, penicillin, tetracycline, and gentamicin, are available over the counter to farmers to administer at their discretion to livestock by injection, orally, and as feed additives.
Another antibiotic approved for use with livestock, tylosin, is closely related to the family of drugs that includes erythromycin.
However, just as with penicillin and the tetracyclines in the past, vets are now simply prescribing more macrolides generally to make up for the ban on tylosin as a growth promoter.
Although the lack of response in performance of heifers fed tylosin during the growing period was unexpected, it is not unique.
A similar study by Kao's group identified two genes responsible for overproduction of the antibiotic tylosin.
Definition of tylosin in US English:
tylosin
nounˈtīləˌsin
An antibiotic that is routinely fed to livestock as a growth promoter and that may contribute to antibiotic resistance in humans.
Example sentencesExamples
Currently, many antibiotics, such as tylosin, penicillin, tetracycline, and gentamicin, are available over the counter to farmers to administer at their discretion to livestock by injection, orally, and as feed additives.
Although the lack of response in performance of heifers fed tylosin during the growing period was unexpected, it is not unique.
Another antibiotic approved for use with livestock, tylosin, is closely related to the family of drugs that includes erythromycin.
However, just as with penicillin and the tetracyclines in the past, vets are now simply prescribing more macrolides generally to make up for the ban on tylosin as a growth promoter.
A similar study by Kao's group identified two genes responsible for overproduction of the antibiotic tylosin.