Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) - Collaborators

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• Collaborating laboratories
• Surveillance components
• Other participants

The Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) is grateful for the support of industry and government partners for their participation in our surveillance programs.^*

Collaborating laboratories

Laboratory component leads

National Microbiology Laboratory at Winnipeg

• Reference Services Unit: Sara Christianson
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Amrita Bharat and Stacie Langner

National Microbiology Laboratory at Guelph

• Guelph Reference Services Unit (Salmonella Typing): Matt Cook, Nina Dougherty, Bob Holtslander, Suzanne Johnson, Ketna Mistry, Betty Wilkie, Pauline Zhang, and Kim Ziebell
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Andrea Desruisseau and Chad Gill

National Microbiology Laboratory at Saint-Hyacinthe

• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Danielle Daignault, Manon Caron, and Sophia Sheriff
• Primary Isolation: Louise Beausoleil, Sindy Cleary, Marie-Claude Deshaies, Julie Roy, and Lien Mi Tien

Provincial public health laboratories

We gratefully acknowledge the provincial public health laboratories for their longstanding support and for providing data and bacterial isolates for CIPARS:

• British Columbia Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia (Linda Hoang)
• Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Alberta (Marie Louie)
• Saskatchewan Laboratory and Disease Control Services (Greg Horsman)
• Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba (John Wylie)
• Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Public Health Ontario (Vanessa Allen)
• Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec de l’Institut national de santé publique du Québec (Sadjia Bekal)
• New Brunswick Enteric Reference Centre (Sameh El Bailey)
• Microbiology Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Nova Scotia (David Haldane)
• Laboratory Services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Prince Edward Island (Greg German)
• Newfoundland Public Health Laboratory (George Zahariadis)

Provincial animal health laboratories

We gratefully acknowledge the provincial animal health laboratories for their longstanding support and for providing data and bacterial isolates for CIPARS:

• Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture (Erin Zabek)
• Prairie Diagnostic Services, Saskatoon (Kathy Dielschneider and Musangu Ngeleka)
• Veterinary Services Branch Laboratory, Manitoba (Neil Pople)
• The Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph, Ontario (Durda Slavic)
• IDEXX Laboratories, Ontario (Hani Dick)
• Laboratoire d'épidémiosurveillance animale du Québec (Julie-Hélène Fairbrother)
• Provincial Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, New Brunswick (Jim Goltz)
• Veterinary Pathology Laboratory, Nova Scotia (Catherine Graham)
• Diagnostic Services, Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island (Jan Giles)
• Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agrifoods, Newfoundland and Labrador (Laura Rogers)
• Department of Fisheries and Agriculture (Jeannie Tucker)

Surveillance components

Retail meat surveillance

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

• Centre for Coastal Health (Carl Ribble and Stefan Iwasawa)
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Mueen Aslam, Tineke Jones, Cara Service, and Tim McAllister)

We also thank the following health unit managers, public health inspectors, and environmental health officers: Bob Bell, Tanya Musgrave, Torsten Schulz, and Lee Siewerda.

Abattoir surveillance

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

Farm surveillance

We are grateful for the support of the Canadian Poultry Research Council, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, as well as the sentinel veterinarians and the producers who participated in Farm Surveillance by providing data and enabling collection of samples for bacterial culture.

We would like to acknowledge the following organizations for their contribution to the CIPARS Farm Surveillance components:

• Alberta Chicken Producers
• Alberta CAP (Canadian Agricultural Partnership) Funding
• Alberta Beef Producers
• Alberta Cattle Feeders Association
• Bayer Animal Health
• Beef Cattle Research Council/Canadian Cattleman’s
• Beef Farmers of Ontario
• British Columbia Chicken Marketing Board
• British Columbia Turkey Farmers
• Canadian Hatcheries Federation
• Canadian Pork Council and Provincial Pork Boards
• Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council
• Chicken Farmers of Canada
• Chicken Farmers of Ontario
• CIPARS Farm Broiler Chicken Industry Antimicrobial Use/Resistance Working Group
• CIPARS Farm Feedlot Cattle Expert Group and Advisory Committee
• CIPARS Farm Swine Advisory Committees
• Les Éleveurs de volailles du Québec
• McDonald’s
• Ontario CAP Funding
• Prairie Diagnostic Services, Saskatoon
• Saskatchewan Cattle Feeders Association
• Turkey Farmers of Ontario
• Turkey Farmers of Canada
• Vetoquinol

Quantities of antimicrobials distributed for sale in animals

Surveillance component coordinators

• Health Canada’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate: Manisha Mehrotra
• Public Health Agency of Canada – Centre for Foodborne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases: Carolee Carson
• Public Health Agency of Canada – Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI): Shamir Mukhi

Health Canada Data validation and communication

• Xian-Zhi Li, Annika Flint, Megan Rose-Martel, Valentine Usongo, Mark Reist, Holly Hutchings, Naida Hyndman, and Tushar Shakya

Veterinary Antimicrobial Sales Reporting (VASR) database operations in Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI)

• The CNPHI team

Integrated AMU information

• Data on antimicrobials used as pesticides on food crops: Brian Belliveau
• Data on antimicrobials dispensed by community pharmacies or purchased by hospitals for use in people: Glenys Smith and Jayson Shurgold
• Data on CIPARS farm-use: Agnes Agunos, David Léger, Sheryl Gow, and Anne Deckert
• Data on aquaculture: John Martell and Ed Porter

Additional thanks for Veterinary Antimicrobial Sales Reporting (VASR)

A very sincere appreciation to input and help along the way from David Léger and Brent Avery for the development of VASR. We appreciate the advice and support of Mary-Jane Ireland, Steven Sternthal, and Stephen Parker. We would also like to thank the data providers, for both their data and for their feedback about improving the VASR system.

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 are grateful to the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System of the United States for sharing information and facilitating harmonization with CIPARS.

We would also like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their contribution to CIPARS in 2019:

Public Health Agency of Canada
Ashleigh Andrysiak, Louise Bellai, Mark Blenkinsop, Ann-Marie Cochrane, George Golding, Saarah Hussain, Dolly Kambo, Nicol Janecko, Stefanie Kadykalo, Ora Kendall, Lisa Landry, Julie Légaré, Sarah Martz, Ryan McKarron, Ali Moterassed, Manuel Navas, Linda Nedd-Gbedemah, Derek Ozunk, Allison Roberts, Mythri Viswanathan, Rama Viswanathan, Victoria Weaver, and Irene Yong.

We are grateful for the support for antimicrobial use metrics development: Angelina Bosman, Daleen Loest, and Lucie Collineau.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Daniel Leclair, Debbie Roffe, and Marina Steele

Canadian Meat Council

Independent Contractors
John Ranson and Ron Templeman
Stephanie Brault
Grace Kuiper
Dana Ramsay