OIE Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli

10/30/2021

🦠 🦠 threatens animals 🐑, humans 👪 & the environment 🍃 collectively.

Employing the approach, with stakeholders from each sector working together, is needed to address 's devastating global 🌍 🌎 🌏 impacts.

05/05/2021

is a growing global threat caused by overuse and misuse of antimicrobials.

Keep antimicrobials effective in fighting infectious diseases in animals and humans, use them responsibly!

03/08/2021

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/10/3/244

The definition of a high risk clone for antibiotic resistance dissemination was initially established for human medicine. We propose a revised definition of a high risk clone adapted to the One Health context. Then, we applied our criteria to a cluster of enrofloxacin non susceptible ETEC:F4 isolate...

03/08/2021

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam.14816

Aims To describe the temporal trends in Escherichia coli pathotypes and antimicrobial resistance detected in isolates from diseased‐pig cases submitted to the EcL from 2008 to 2016, in Quebec, Canad...

12/09/2020

Veterinary Services ensure that is implemented at farms.

They work with farmers:

✔️ to ensure that livestock are in optimal conditions
✔️ to perform risk assessment when animal disease outbreaks occur
✔️ to vaccinate livestock to protect their health and welfare

This contributes to protecting and .

11/25/2020

affects us all!

You and everyone else have a part to play this to protect:

✅ animal health
✅ human health
✅ plant & environment health

Take action in handling with care: prevent disease, seek expert advice, use prudently & create awareness!

LEARN HOW: https://bit.ly/36GsEi0

11/23/2020

11/17/2020

Don’t miss out on participating in 💉 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020 💉!

We’re calling on you to use in animals, humans and the environment with care.

Stay tuned, activities start this week!

06/13/2020

The OIE Working Group on Antimicrobial Resistance is working on the development of species-specific reference documents, starting with poultry, to complement the current OIE List of Antimicrobial Agents of Veterinary Importance.

LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/2MVIqMI

04/25/2020

In case you missed it, numerous veterinary labs have shown their capacity to contribute to the diagnostic testing of human samples of .

LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/2S6TxVV

10/14/2019

Microbiology Monday: In the preantibiotic era, the presence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms was rare. The introduction of antibiotics led to killing of antibiotic-susceptible populations and selection for resistance among present-day bacterial populations.

Resistance spreads through the selection of the minority antibiotic-resistant populations already present as well as dispersion of transferable mechanisms of resistance on mobile DNA. No transferable mechanisms of quinolone resistance were described until 1998; since then, 3 clinically relevant mechanisms of quinolone resistance have been discovered within mobile elements. Learn more about transferable quinolone resistance in a recent Clinical Microbiology Reviews article: https://skyw.io/p7zerC