Antimicrobial Resistance in Livestock

Risk Factors - Prevalence - Molecular Epidemiology - General Information - Diagnostics

 

Risk Factors

Varga C, Rajić A, McFall ME, Reid-Smith RJ, McEwen SA.
Associations among antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella spp. isolates from 60 Alberta finishing swine farms.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2009 Jan-Feb;6(1):23-31.
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Akwar TH, Poppe C, Wilson J, Reid-Smith RJ, Dyck M, Waddington J, Shang D, Dassie N, McEwen SA.
Risk Factors for Antimicrobial Resistance among Fecal Escherichia coli from Residents on Forty-Three Swine Farms. Microb Drug Resist. 2007;13(1):69-76.
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Boerlin, P., A. Wissing, F. Aarestrup, J. Frey, and J. Nicolet. 2001. Antimicrobial promoter ban and resistance to macrolides and vancomycin in enterococci from pigs. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:4193-4195.
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Prevalence

Cook A, Reid-Smith R, Irwin R, McEwen SA, Valdivieso-Garcia A, Ribble C.
Antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli isolated from retail turkey meat from southern Ontario, Canada.
J Food Prot. 2009 Mar;72(3):473-81.
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Varga C, Rajić A, McFall ME, Reid-Smith RJ, Deckert AE, Checkley SL, McEwen SA.
Associations between reported on-farm antimicrobial use practices and observed antimicrobial resistance in generic fecal Escherichia coli isolates from Alberta finishing swine farms.
Prev Vet Med. 2009 Mar 1;88(3):185-92.
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Kozak GK, Boerlin P, Janecko N, Reid-Smith RJ, Jardine C.
Antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolates from swine and wild small mammals in the proximity of swine farms and in natural environments in Ontario, Canada.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Feb;75(3):559-66.
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Khanna T, Friendship R, Dewey C, Weese JS.
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in pigs and pig farmers.
Vet Microbiol 128:298-303. 2008.
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Varela N.P., Friendship R.M., Dewey C.E.
Prevalence of resistance to 11 antimicrobials among Campylobacter coli isolated from pigs on 80 grower-finisher farms in Ontario.
Can J Vet Res 71: 189-194, 2007.
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Poppe, C., Martin, L., Gyles, C., Reid-Smith, R., Boerlin, P., McEwen, S., Prescott, J. F., Forward, K. 2005.
Acquisition of resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins by Salmonella Newport and Escherichia coli in the intestinal tract of turkey poults.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 71:1184-1192.
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Rajic A, McFall ME, Deckert AE, Reid-Smith R, Manninen K, Poppe C, Dewey CE, McEwen SA.
Antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolated from finishing swine and the environment of 60 Alberta swine farms.
Vet Microbiol. 2004 Dec 9;104(3-4):189-96.
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Larkin C, Poppe C, McNab B, McEwen B, Mahdi A, Odumeru J. 2004.
Antibiotic resistance of Salmonella isolated from Hog, Beef, and Chicken Carcass Samples from Provincially Inspected Abattoirs in Ontario.
J Food Protection 67:448-455
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Lanz R, Kuhnert P, Boerlin P.
Antimicrobial resistance and resistance gene determinants in clinical Escherichia coli from different animal species in Switzerland.
Vet Microbiol. 2003 Jan 2;91(1):73-84.
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Amezcua R, Friendship RM, Dewey CE, Gyles C, Fairbrother JM.
Presentation of postweaning Escherichia coli diarrhea in southern Ontario, prevalence of hemolytic E. coli serogroups involved, and their antimicrobial resistance patterns.
Can J Vet Res. 2002 Apr;66(2):73-8.
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Boerlin, P., R. M. Travis, C. L. Gyles, R. Reid-Smith, N. Janecko, H. Lim, V. Nicholson, S. A. McEwen, R. Friendship, and M. Archambault.
Antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes of Escherichia coli from swine in Ontario.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 6753-6761.
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Molecular Epidemiology

Kozak GK, Pearl DL, Parkman J, Reid-Smith RJ, Deckert A, Boerlin P.
Distribution of sulfonamide resistance genes in Escherichia coli and Salmonella isolates from swine and chickens at abattoirs in Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Sep;75(18):5999-6001.
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Farzan, A. V.; Friendship, R. M.; Poppe C, Martin L, Dewey C E, Funk J.Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 on Ontario swine farms. Can J Vet Res. 72: 188-195, 2008.
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Gow SP, Waldner CL, Harel J, Boerlin P.
Associations between antimicrobial resistance genes in fecal generic Escherichia coli isolates from cow-calf herds in western Canada. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2008 Jun;74(12):3658-66.
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Travis RM, Gyles CL, Reid-Smith R, Poppe C, McEwen SA, Friendship R, Janecko N, Boerlin P.
Chloramphenicol and kanamycin resistance among porcine Escherichia coli in Ontario.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Jul;58(1):173-7. Epub 2006 May 23.
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Perreten, V. and P. Boerlin. 2003.
A new sulfonamide resistance gene (sul3) in Escherichia coli is widely spread in the pig population of Switzerland.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 47:1169-1172.
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General Information

McEwen SA. Antibiotic use in animal agriculture: what have we learned and where are we going?
Anim Biotechnol. 2006;17(2):239-50.
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Rajic A, Reid-Smith R, Deckert AE, Dewey CE, McEwen SA.
Reported antibiotic use in 90 swine farms in Alberta.
Can Vet J. 2006 May;47(5):446-52.
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McEwen SA, Fedorka-Cray P. Antimicrobial use and resistance in animals.
Clin Inf Dis. 2002. 34 (Suppl): S93-106.
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Diagnostics

Varela N P, R Friendship, C Dewey, A Valdivieso.
Comparison of agar dilution and E-test® for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Campylobacter coli isolates recovered from 80 Ontario swine farms.
Can J Vet Res, 72: 168-174, 2008.
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