Salmonella in Chicken Increasingly Resistant to Critical Antibiotics, USDA-FSIS Reports
In recent years, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among Salmonella serotypes of public health concern worsened regarding critical antibiotics, according to a recent report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS). The report highlights multi-year trends for Salmonella AMR from data collected by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) during 2014–2019.
NARMS is a national public health system that tests bacteria from human and animal samples to monitor select pathogens’ antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to drugs used in human and veterinary medicine. NARMS is conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FSIS testing focuses on bacteria from animal cecal contents, as well as regulated food products.