Longitudinal analysis of antimicrobial resistance of grain-fed beef cattle

PROJECT: Previous Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) projects (Barlow et al. 2015; Barlowet al. 2017) conducted slaughter surveillance in2013 at 31 Australian abattoirs on grass-fed, grain-fed, veal and dairy cattle. In general, resistance to antimicrobials of critical and high importance in human medicine was either absent orat very low prevalence. This project will undertake a longitudinal study of AMR