Public Health - Salmonella
Evaluate the dissemination of Salmonella in the environment following land application of swine manure
August 3, 2015By Siddhartha Thakur
There is tremendous pressure on the US pork industry to ban the prophylactic and growth promotion use of antimicrobials in feed due to the generation of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial...
Public Health - Salmonella
Salmonella sample cryopreservation enables epidemiologic study, quantification of bacteria and further characterization of bacterial isolates.
February 17, 2010By Peter Bahnson
Salmonella control requires practical means to reliably test for shedding of the organism. Fecal samples offer the potential to sample on farms or at slaughter plants. However, methods to culture...
Public Health - Salmonella
Salmonellosis from Pork Products: A Quantitative Risk Assessment
June 30, 2008By Emma Hartnett
We developed a farm-to-illness risk assessment to investigate the risk of human salmonellosis from the consumption of fresh pork. The risk assessment explores major issues in both pre-harvest and...
Public Health - Salmonella
Risk Factors for the Occurance of drug resistant Salmonella spp. in commercial swine production
August 27, 2004By Peter Bahnson
Resistance to two antimicrobial drugs frequently used in swine production, tetracycline and sulfa drugs, was common among Salmonella isolates from commercial farms. Since these isolates were from...
