Welcome to a seminar with Dr. Csaba Varga, Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
The seminar is a collaboration between SLU and UIUC and funded by the "Gustafsson and Whitmore International Diary Cattle Research Award Fund".
The title of the seminar is Monitoring antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens at the human-animal-environment interface.
Short description of the seminar:
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in foodborne pathogens poses a public health threat as consuming contaminated food products is an important source of human infections. Evaluating AMR and antimicrobial use (AMU) surveillance programs is critical to monitoring current AMR patterns and trends in foodborne pathogens. Identifying emerging antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and factors that impact the selection of multidrug-resistant bacteria is vital to developing antimicrobial stewardship programs to reduce the burden of these infections.
This talk will describe AMR patterns and trends in three important foodborne bacteria, Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli in poultry and livestock production systems collected by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS). In addition, results will be presented on the associations between AMR and AMU in E.coli and Campylobacter collected from turkey flocks between 2016 and 2021 by the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS).