Combining Analytical Epidemiology and Genomic Surveillance to Identify Risk Factors Associated with the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance in Subsp. Serovar Heidelberg

Overview

Journal Microb Genom

Specialties Genetics
Microbiology

Date 2023 Feb 7

PMID 36748560

Authors

Benjamin M Hetman

David L Pearl

Dillon O R Barker

James Robertson

John H E Nash

Richard Reid-Smith

Agnes Agunos

Catherine Carrillo

Edward Topp

Gary Van Domselaar

E Jane Parmley

Amrita Bharat

Michael Mulvey

Vanessa Allen

Eduardo N Taboada

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Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a critical threat to public health worldwide. The use of antimicrobials in food and livestock agriculture, including the production of poultry, is thought to contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and the genes and plasmids that confer the resistant phenotype (ARG). However, the relative contribution of each of these processes to the emergence of resistant pathogens in poultry production and their potential role in the transmission of resistant pathogens in human infections, requires a deeper understanding of the dynamics of ARB and ARG in food production and the factors involved in the increased risk of transmission.

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