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Animal owners can help protect life-saving antibiotics from resistant bacteria by keeping their animals healthy, says the New Zealand Veterinary Association.

A biological product called Amplimune is helping with the worldwide fight against antibiotic resistance in livestock.

Right now antibiotics are treating serious diseases worldwide, but resistance threatens the future of this essential form of defence.

Bayer has improved its antibiotic resistance test in dairy cows, adding four new antibiotic families.

AgResearch scientists are looking into how common pests in New Zealand are fighting back against traditional measures to control them – and whether it all comes back to evolution.

New Zealand appears to have very low use of antimicrobials in dairy cattle by international standards, a study has shown.

One of the great medical breakthroughs of our age was the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928.

Veterinarians are urging farmers to work with them to address antibiotic resistance in dairy cattle.