Category: Agricultural Antibiotics - Tara C. Smith, PhD

New report on antibiotic resistance in livestock

8/30/2017

I've been a part of this commission for the better part of a year, working with other infectious disease physicians, pediatricians, veterinarians, microbiologists and other experts to craft a roadmap, consisting of 11 core policy recommendations, to help move the U.S. forward in addressing the contribution of livestock antibiotic use to the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance. Our white paper was just released: Combating Antibiotic Resistance: A Policy Roadmap to Reduce Use of Medically Important Antibiotics in Livestock.

What happens when antibiotics stop working?

10/26/2016

New at Mental Floss, 5 Ways a Post-Antibiotic Era Could Change Medicine.

New article!

10/28/2015

In the Washington Post, I write about "antibiotic-free" meat products--what does it mean? What does ‘meat raised without antibiotics’ mean — and why is it important?

New post!

4/30/2015

A blog post discussing our new paper: ST398 carriage and infections in farmers, United States.

New paper!

4/30/2015

Online now at Clinical Infectious Diseases, Wardyn SE, Forshey BM, Farina S, Kates AE, Nair R, Quick M, Wu J, Hanson BM, O’Malley S, Shows H, Heywood E, Beane-Freeman LE, Lynch CF, Carrel M, Smith TC. Swine farming is a risk factor for infection with and high prevalence of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clinical Infectious Diseases, in press, 2015.

New paper!

4/6/2015

Part of Kolie Eko's Master's degree work: Eko K, Foshey B, Carrel M, Perencevich E, Schweizer M, Smith TC. Molecular characterization of hospital and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a Veterans Affairs Hospital. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, in press.

Maryn McKenna covers recent work

2/16/2015

"Countries Wary Of Drug-Resistant Staph Moving From Pigs To People" in which my work and other developments in livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus are covered by Maryn McKenna.

New paper!

2/5/2015

Part of the PLoS Pathogens "Pearls" series, a new review: Livestock-Associated Staphylococcus aureus: The United States Experience.

Former student Max Su featured in ScienceNews story

10/10/2014

Bethany Brookshire writes about some of our latest lab research--and our high school student, Yutao (Max) Su, who helped with it as a summer project in my lab.

New York Times mentions our research

9/16/2014

My colleague Chris Heaney's research is written up in today's New York Times. Our previous study examining carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in veterinary students is mentioned.