Study: Food Animals Contain More Antimicrobial-Resistant Salmonella Than Previously Thought
A report from the University of Georgia (UGA) has shown that there may be more antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella in our food animals than researchers previously thought.
UGA researcher Nikki Shariat and Amy Siceloff, a first-year doctoral student in UGA's Department of Microbiology, have found that traditional culturing methods used to test livestock for problematic bacteria usually miss drug-resistant strains of Salmonella. This finding is important for treating sick food animals and the consumers who get infected by eating contaminated meat.