Pipestone's Karyn Havas Receives Grant to Address Antimicrobial Resistance in Swine

December 5, 2023 — 

The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) currently tracks antimicrobial resistance data at the level of the meat case, the harvest facility and across cases of human foodborne illness. However, no such effort exists at the level of the swine farm, yet.

Pipestone's Karyn Havas, DVM, wants to change that. She recently received a $202,555 grant through the International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) to develop a protocol that tracks antibiotic use across large-scale commercial swine production systems and compares it in real-time with its respective on-farm antibiotic use.

Havas is receiving one of three grants totaling $377,503 to track antimicrobial usage and support better-informed antibiotic treatment for bacteria that cause diseases in swine and beef cattle.

Read more at Farm Journal's Pork.

[Source: Farm Journal's Pork 30 November 2023, by Jennifer Shike]