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Farm management and longitudinal data on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistant E. coli for individual heifers on 37 dairy farms, South West England, 2018

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Summary

This dataset represents a cohort of heifers followed from birth to 18 months or first pregnancy on 37 farms in the South West of England. Faecally-contaminated environmental samples were collected over 2 years and the samples analysed for E. coli resistance to amoxicillin, cefalexin and tetracycline with detection of resistant strains presented in the dataset as a binary result. Farm-level antibiotic usage data is also given. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7c3ad803-fbd4-45c3-826b-fa04c902ded8

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
7c3ad803-fbd4-45c3-826b-fa04c902ded8
Extent (Latitude)
51.766° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.452° to -1°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2021-09-16
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Reyher, K., Avison, M., Schubert, H., Cogan, T., Gould, V.C. (2021). Farm management and longitudinal data on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistant E. coli for individual heifers on 37 dairy farms, South West England, 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/7c3ad803-fbd4-45c3-826b-fa04c902ded8
Responsible party
University of Bristol (author, pointOfContact, owner); (publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng