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Rifampicin, also known as rifampin, is an ansamycin antibiotic used to treat several types of bacterial infections, including tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium avium complex, leprosy, and Legionnaires' disease. [3]
A CDC infographic on how antibiotic-resistant bacteria have the potential to spread from farm animals. The use of antibiotics in the husbandry of livestock includes treatment when ill (therapeutic), treatment of a group of animals when at least one is diagnosed with clinical infection (metaphylaxis [1]), and preventative treatment (prophylaxis).
Rifampin rapidly kills fast-dividing bacilli strains as well as "persisters" cells, which remain biologically inactive for long periods of time that allow them to evade antibiotic activity. [7] In addition, rifabutin and rifapentine have both been used against tuberculosis acquired in HIV-positive patients.
The Rotes Höhenvieh is a breed of red cattle from the Central Uplands of Germany. It was created in 1985 as a merger of the few remaining examples of a number of closely similar regional breeds of upland red cattle. Reconstruction of the breed was made possible by the discovery of a stock of semen in a sperm bank. The name means "red upland ...
Cow generally weigh 700 kg (~1500 lb) and are 138 cm (4.5 ft) tall at shoulder ... In 1986 there were still about 50,000 Belgian Red cattle left in the region, but ...
The Pie Rouge des Plaines is a modern breed. In 1970, farmers raising the traditional red-pied Armorican cattle in the three western départements of Brittany – Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère and the Morbihan – took the decision to merge their breed with red-pied cattle of Germany and the Netherlands, through a programme of extensive cross-breeding with German Rotbunt and Dutch Meuse-Rhine ...
The cattle are reared principally for milk. The average annual yield is 7125 kg per cow, with an average fat content of 4.24%. [5]: 263 Norwegian Red used for dairy crossbreeding in Ireland. The Norwegian Red has been used to improve some characteristics of other dairy breeds such as the Friesian. [7] [8] [9]
An Estonian Red cow in the barn of Estonian University of Life Sciences near Tartu. The Estonian Red (Estonian: Eesti punane veis) is an Estonian breed of dairy cattle.It was developed in the second half of the nineteenth century from cross-breeding of local cattle with imported stock of the Angeln, Danish Red and North Slesvig Red breeds.