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PSM/Horticulture 2015 Fall Seminar Series
Thursday, October 29, 2015
4:10 p.m. -5:00 p.m.
A149 Plant and Soil Sciences Building (PSSB)
Title:
“Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance in
Crop Production Systems Fertilized with
Animal or Human Waste”
By
Dr. Edward Topp
Principal Research Scientist
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.
Dr. Ed Topp will present an ESPP distinguished lecture on antibiotic resistance on 10/29. If you are interest, please click the following link for registration
http://bit.ly/1LOF7kf
TITLE: The environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance: How important is it, and what to do about it?
ABSTRACT: Current predictions are that accelerating development of antimicrobial resistance by bacterial pathogens will have dire consequences for human morbidity and mortality. There is thus an urgent need for a comprehensive and global strategy to forestall resistance development, and maintain the future efficacy of clinically important medicines. Action must include steps to promote the judicious use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine and in animal production. Gathering evidence indicates that genes conferring antimicrobial resistance can be recruited from environmental microorganisms by human pathogens, and that environmental exposure to drug residues and antimicrobial resistance genes carried in agricultural wastes and effluents from municipal wastewater treatment plants potentiates the environmental reservoir of antimicrobial resistance. This presentation will present evidence that human interaction with the environment is contributing to the development of this seminal public health problem, strategies by which this impact could be managed, and key knowledge gaps.
