The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has a requirement to maintain and sustain a national farm antimicrobial drug use and resistance surveillance program across the five major poultry producing provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec) under the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) and a sentinel-site based farm food and water-borne pathogen surveillance program under FoodNet Canada. This project will provide data on antimicrobial use and the occurrence of and antimicrobial resistance in microbes isolated from poultry. The results of the analyses will provide information on the epidemiology of food and water-borne disease, antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use in poultry production.

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