Contributors: 2008 Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) annual report

Contributors to CIPARS 2008

These acknowledgements are intended to identify and thank the numerous individuals and organizations that have contributed to the success of CIPARS 2008.

Program Coordinators

• Kathryn Doré,^{Footnote 1} Rita Finley,^{Footnote 1} Rebecca Irwin,^{Footnote 2} and Lai-King Ng^{Footnote 3}

Surveillance Component Leads

• Abattoir Surveillance: Anne Deckert^{Footnote 2}
• Retail Meat Surveillance: Brent Avery^{Footnote 2}
• Farm Surveillance: David Léger,^{Footnote 2} Sheryl Gow,^{Footnote 2} and Anne Deckert^{Footnote 2}
• Surveillance of Animal Clinical Isolates: Anne Decker
• Surveillance of Human Clinical Isolates: Rita Finley and Lai-King Ng
• Drug Use Monitoring in Animals: Richard Reid-Smith^{Footnote 2}
• Drug Use Monitoring in Humans: Rita Finley
• Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting: Lucie Dutil^{Footnote 2}
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Michael Mulvey

Laboratory Components

• Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Saint-Hyacinthe:
  • Surveillance Laboratory: Danielle Daignault
  • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Manon Caron
• Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph:
  • Salmonella Typing: Linda Cole
  • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Andrea Desruisseau, Abigail Crocker, and Chad Gill
• National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg:
  • Salmonella Serotyping: Helen Tabor
  • Salmonella Phage Typing: Rafiq Ahmed

Report Coordinators

• Jennifer Baker
• Michelle Tessier

Authors/Analysts

• Brent Avery
• Carolee Carson
• Danielle Daignault
• Anne Deckert
• Walter Demczuk
• Kathryn Doré
• Lucie Dutil
• Rita Finley
• Sheryl Gow
• Rebecca Irwin
• David Léger
• Antoinette Ludwig
• Lai-King Ng
• Alison Mather
• Pia Muchaal
• Jane Parmley
• Richard Reid-Smith
• Leigh Rosengren
• Lisa Scott
• Michelle Tessier
• Marie Varughese

Editor

• Sandra Lefebvre

Communications

• Jennifer Baker
• Carolee Carson

We gratefully acknowledge the provincial reference laboratories for their longstanding support and for providing data and bacterial isolates for CIPARS.

Provincial Public Health Laboratories

• Laboratory Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (Judy Isaac-Renton)
• Provincial Laboratory of Public Health, Alberta (Marie Louie)
• Saskatchewan Laboratory and Disease Control Services (Greg Horsman)
• Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba (Paul Van Caeseele)
• Central Public Health Laboratory, Public Health Laboratories Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Frances Jamieson)
• Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec de l'Institut national de santé publique du Québec (Johanne Ismail)
• New Brunswick Enteric Reference Centre (Glenna Hardy)
• Microbiology Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Nova Scotia (Kevin Forward)
• Laboratory Services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Prince Edward Island (Lewis Abbott)
• Newfoundland Public Health Laboratory (Sam Ratnam)

Provincial Animal Health Laboratories

• Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands (Sean Byrne)
• Government of Alberta, Agriculture and Rural Development (Margaret McFall and Rashed Cassis)
• Veterinary Services Branch Laboratory, Manitoba (Neil Pople)
• The Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph, Ontario (Durda Slavic)
• Vita-Tech Canada Inc., Ontario (Hani Dick)
• Direction des laboratoires d'expertises du Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (Marie Nadeau)
• Provincial Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, New Brunswick (Jim Goltz)
• Veterinary Pathology Laboratory, Nova Scotia (Lyn Ferns)
• Diagnostic Services, Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island (Jan Giles)

Abattoir-Industry Participants

We would like to thank the abattoir industry and the regional directors, inspection managers, and on-site staff of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for their extensive voluntary participation in CIPARS Abattoir Surveillance.

Farm Surveillance Participants

We are grateful for the efforts and participation of Alberta Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as the sentinel-swine veterinarians and the producers who participated in Farm Surveillance by providing data and enabling collection of samples for bacterial culture.

Retail Meat Surveillance Participants

We would like to extend our thanks to the following organizations for their participation in CIPARS Retail Meat Surveillance:

• University of Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Veterinary College (J.T. McClure, Carol McClure, and Matthew Saab)
• Prince Edward Island Food Technology Centre
• Centre for Coastal Health
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Mueen Aslam)

We also thank the following health unit managers, public health inspectors, and environmental health officers: Terry O'Donnell, Bob Bell, Nadine Rypalowski, Tony Pacifico, Christopher Beveridge, Troy Sampson, Torsten Schulz, Ken Ast, Chasch Ray, Ingo Frankfurt, Paul Harl, Carla Plotnikoff, Sharlene Lively, Russell Seltenrich, Lucy Beck, Pearly Yip, Jim Green, Iqbal Kalsi, Shawna Scafe, and Matthew Shumaker.

Other Participants

We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of field workers, laboratory technicians, and data managers for their contributions. The careful collection of samples, processing of isolates, and recording of results are essential to the ongoing success of CIPARS.

We would also like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their contribution to CIPARS 2008.

Public Health Agency of Canada

• Ashleigh Andrysiak
• Patrick Boerlin
• Louise Bellai
• Manon Caron
• Gail Christie
• Sindy Cleary
• Ann-Marie Cochrane
• Linda Cole
• Denise Coleman
• Marie-Claude Deshaies
• Claudia Dulgheru
• Christine Forsberg
• Chris Frost
• Bernard Jackson
• Kristin Kaese
• Mohamed Karmali
• Ora Kendall
• Laura Martin
• Ryan McKarron
• Pascal Michel
• Manuel Navas
• Derek Ozunk
• Ann Perets
• Frank Plummer
• Frank Pollari
• Mark Raizenne
• Susan Read
• Julie Roy
• Shawna Saint-Phar
• Diane Sanjenko
• Sarah Sanjenko
• Sophia Sheriff
• Paul Sockett
• David Sturrock
• Lien Mi Tien
• Rama Viswanathan
• Joy Wade
• Victoria Weaver
• Betty Wilkie

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

• Jean Kamanzi
• Daniel Leclair

Health Canada, Veterinary Drugs Directorate

• Shiva Ghimire
• Xian-Zhi Li
• Manisha Mehrotra
• Michel Ntemgwa

Other Organizations

• Intercontinental Medical Statistics
• Health Canada
• Canadian Animal Health Institute
• Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance
• Canadian Meat Council
• Canadian Pork Council
• Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council
• CIPARS National Steering Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Enterics
• CIPARS Farm Swine Advisory Committee

We are grateful to the US National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for sharing information and facilitating harmonization with CIPARS.