National workshop on “Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Chain” held at CFTRI, Mysuru
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Mysuru: Two days national workshop on “Antimicrobial resistance in food chain” was held at Department of Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, CSIR-CFTRI on November 25 and 26.
This workshop was sponsored by Department of Health research Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi under its Human Resource Development program.
Two-day’s workshop was virtually inaugurated by Dr Abdul Gaffur Prof Apollo Hospital & Coordinator- AMR, Chennai Declaration in presence of Dr M N Sumana, Prof & Ex Head of Microbiology Department JSS Hospital & Medical college, Mysuru, Dr V S Chauhan, Chief Scientist & Head, Plant Cell Biotechnology Dept, CSIR- CFTRI and Dr Prakash M Halami, Organizing Secretary and Head of MFT Dept, CSIR-CFTRI.
Dr Abdul Gaffur in his inaugural address stressed on judicious use of antibiotics and proper stewardship program in combatting antimicrobial resistance in food chain.
In his subsequent lecture, he highlighted the importance of Chennai Declaration, National action plan enforcement by Govt of India for combating anti-microbial research and its implementation in the country. The major threat caused by colistin resistance in food chain was seriously reviewed by Dr. Gaffur through his own scientific evidences and he advised the rational usage of antibiotics in veterinary, fishery and poultry field.
Dr Sumana in her address highlighted the importance of general awareness to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance among public.
She spoke about the initiative taken by her research group in combatting antimicrobial resistance through molecular studies and one health approach.
Dr I Karunasagar, Retd. FAO Expert spoke about antimicrobial reservoir in fishery involvement.
Dr Anand Kumar, Prof. & Head, Veterinary Microbiology, NTR college of veterinary Science, Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh, gave an overview about development of antimicrobial resistance in food chain through animal feed.
A panel discussion was organised in the topic to deliberate how AMR can be stopped especially with reference to its growing menace in food chain.
The experts from different parts of country were joined online to participate in panel discussion. Views by each panelist were shared on the topic and the questions raised by the participants were discussed. Practical session was organized to give hands on experience to all the participants.
Experiments such as, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, screening of antimicrobial resistant bacteria, MIC determination, PCR of antibiotic resistance genes, evaluation of mechanism of antibiotic resistance by phenotype expression, conjugation experiment, hetero-resistance, gene expression studies etc were dealt in workshop.
In addition, demonstration on simpler AMR evaluation in bacteria, antimicrobial residue analysis was also organized during the two days workshop. Antimicrobial resistance in food chain is a serious concern since, Tylosin, Auoparcin, and Colistin are the antibiotics used in agriculture as an additive to the livestock feed to promote growth of chicken, pig and cattle. Misuse and overuse of these antibiotics as a growth promoters, promoters and propylaxix are some of the reasons for the development of resistance in bacteria.
This caused the major concern in food chain and development of resistance among different pathogens and food bacteria.
Poster presentation session was organised where in participants had opportunity to present the research findings. Out of 35 registered participants, 25 were physically present during the workshop.
This event coincided with the WHO’s Program on World Antimicrobial Awareness week and had provided real glimpse of the activities through posters displayed that was arranged for the week at the Department of Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, CSIR-CFTRI Mysore.
Participation certificates and prizes were distributed to the poster presenters as per the open judgment completion.
– Team Mysoorunews
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