[A survey on the use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine (author's transl)].

Many problems about public health are raised by the use of antiinfectious agents in veterinary medicine. Particular attention must be given to the contamination of human food of animal origin and to the exposure of workers manufacturing these drugs. A review of the use of these products in veterinary medicine, particularly that of antibiotics will allow to circumscribe the problems due to drugs which might cause allergy.