Xaver Sidler

Introduction: The use of antibiotic drugs in food producing animals is considered to be a major risk factor for selection of antimicrobial resistance in humans as well as in animals. All antibiotics used in veterinary medicine are closely related to the antibiotics used in human medicine and may induce cross-resistance. Hence, minimizing antibiotic usage and prudent use of antibiotics are two key ...

1. IntroductionWith 1766–1768 nucleotides, porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the smallest genomic panzootic associated virus among the circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses hitherto. These ssDNA viruses are remarkably understudied, and only recently have researchers begun to study these viruses due to the advent of next-generation sequencing in birds, fish, mammals, and even humans ...