Strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) causing post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD)
in piglets have a widespread and detrimental impact on animal health and the economics of …

Bacteriophage therapy has demonstrated promising results towards the control of bacterial
infections within the aquaculture industry as an alternative therapy to antibiotics. This current …

Gram-negative bacteria are known to cause severe infections in both humans and animals.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Gram-negative bacteria is a major challenge in the …

Streptococcus suis is a swine pathogen and a zoonotic agent afflicting people in close contact
with infected pigs or pork meat. Sporadic cases of human infections have been reported …

Objectives Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to critically important antimicrobials (CIAs)
amongst Gram-negative bacteria can feasibly be transferred amongst wildlife, humans and …

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a pressing public health issue due to
limited therapeutic options to treat such infections. CREs have been predominantly isolated …

This study investigated the frequency of antimicrobial non-susceptibility (defined as the
frequency of isolates with minimum inhibitory concentrations above the CLSI susceptible clinical …

Escherichia coli sequence types 131 (ST131) and 1193 are multidrug-resistant extraintestinal
pathogens that have recently spread epidemically among humans and are occasionally …

The World Health Organisation has defined “highest priority critically important antimicrobials”
(CIAs) as those requiring the greatest control during food production. Evidence …

This study investigated the ecology, epidemiology and plasmid characteristics of extended-spectrum
cephalosporin (ESC)-resistant E. coli in healthy pigs over a period of 4 years (2013–…