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

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• The CIPARS team in 2020
• Collaborating laboratories in 2020
• Surveillance components in 2020
• Other participants in 2020

This page lists all collaborators who contributed to the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) 2020 data, analyses and reporting of results. Footnote *

The CIPARS team in 2020

Program coordinators

Carolee Carson^{Footnote 1}, Rebecca Irwin^{Footnote 1}, Richard Reid-Smith^{Footnote 1}, and Michael Mulvey ^{Footnote 2}

Surveillance component leads

• Surveillance of Human Clinical Isolates: Brent Avery, Amrita Bharat, Melissa MacKinnon, and Michael Mulvey
• Retail Meat Surveillance: Brent Avery and Allison Roberts
• Abattoir Surveillance: Anne Deckert
• Farm Surveillance: Agnes Agunos, Anne Deckert, Sheryl Gow, David Léger and Daniella Rizzo
• Surveillance of Animal Clinical Isolates: Brent Avery and Melissa MacKinnon
• Quantities of Antimicrobials Sold for Use in Animals and Crops: Carolee Carson

Antimicrobial resistance data management and analysis lead

Brent Avery

Antimicrobial use data management and analysis leads

Agnes Agunos, Carolee Carson, Anne Deckert, Sheryl Gow, David Léger, and Daniella Rizzo

Administration, Operations and Data Validation

Louise Bellai, Kathryn McDonald, Kelly Pike, Allison Roberts, and Victoria Weaver

Authors/analysts

• Antimicrobial resistance: Agnes Agunos, Brent Avery, Anne Deckert, Sheryl Gow, and Cassie Reedman
• Antimicrobial use/sales: Agnes Agunos, Angelina Bosman, Carolee Carson, Anne Deckert, Sheryl Gow, and David Léger

Communications, report production and interactive data visualization

Brent Avery, Carolee Carson, Melanie Cousins, Melissa Isada, Colleen Murphy, Courtney Primeau, Cassie Reedman, Daniella Rizzo, Michelle Tessier, and Virginia Young

National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) component leads

NML at Winnipeg

• Reference Services Unit: Sara Christianson
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Amrita Bharat, Lisa (Xiao) Li, and Stacie Langner

NML at Guelph

• Guelph Reference Services Unit (Salmonella Typing): Gita Arya, Matt Cook, Nina Dougherty, Amy Feddema, Simone Gurnik, Bob Holtslander, Suzanne Johnson, Ketna Mistry, Linda Need-Gbedemah, Pauline Zhang, Irene Yong, and Kim Ziebell
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Ketna Mistry, David Thumbi, Andrea Desruisseau, and Chad Gill

NML at Saint-Hyacinthe

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Audrey Charlebois, Danielle Daignault, and Sophia Sheriff

Primary Isolation: Audrey Charlebois, Danielle Daignault, Louise Beausoleil, Sindy Cleary, Marie-Claude Deshaies, Julie Roy, and Lien Mi Tien

Collaborating laboratories in 2020

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 (Linda Chui)
• Saskatchewan Laboratory and Disease Control Services (Jessica Minion)
• Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba (David Alexander)
• 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, Dr. Kazal Ghosh, Giselle Hughes, and Jaime Oseiappiah)
• Prairie Diagnostic Services, Saskatoon (Kathy Dielschneider and Dr. Musangu Ngeleka)
• Veterinary Services Branch Laboratory, Manitoba (Dr. Neil Pople)
• The Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph, Ontario (Dr. Durda Slavic)
• IDEXX Laboratories, Ontario (Hani Dick and Walter Dew)
• Laboratoire d'épidémiosurveillance animale du Québec (Julie-Hélène Fairbrother)
• Provincial Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, New Brunswick (Dr. Jim Goltz and Dr. Steven Scott)
• Veterinary Pathology Laboratory, Nova Scotia (Dr. Catherine Graham)
• Diagnostic Services, Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island (Jan Giles)
• Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agrifoods, Newfoundland and Labrador (Jeannie Tucker)

Surveillance components in 2020

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 Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) 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
• Canadian Meat 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 Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) Funding
• Prairie Diagnostic Services, Saskatoon
• Saskatchewan Cattle Feeders Association
• Turkey Farmers of Ontario
• Turkey Farmers of Canada
• Vetoquinol

Quantities of antimicrobials sold for use 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 and Angelina Bosman
• Public Health Agency of Canada – Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI): Shamir Mukhi

Health Canada Data validation and communication

• Xian-Zhi Li, Valentine Usongo, and Mark Reist

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

• The CNPHI team

Integrated AMU information

• Data on antimicrobials sold for use 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, Angelina Bosman, Anne Deckert, Sheryl Gow, David Léger, and Daniella Rizzo
• Data on antimicrobial prescriptions for aquaculture: Michael Ott

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 in 2020

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:

Public Health Agency of Canada

Ashleigh Andrysiak, Louise Bellai, Mark Blenkinsop, Ann-Marie Cochrane, George Golding, Saarah Hussain, Stefanie Kadykalo, Ora Kendall, Lisa Landry, Julie Légaré, Ryan McKarron, Ali Moterassed, Manuel Navas, Linda Nedd-Gbedemah, and Derek Ozunk.

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

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Daniel Leclair, Debbie Roffe, and Marina Steele

Independent Contractors and students

Alyssa Butters, Tara Funk, Dana Ramsay, John Ranson, Kayla Strong, and Ron Templeman.