Antimicrobial Resistance

Anitmicrobial

Antibiotics are common therapeutic tools used in treatment and prevention of infections in both humans and animals. However, excessive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in human healthcare and livestock production in the past few decades resulted in microbes that are resistant to these crucial antibiotics. As a result, treatments and therapies to antibiotic resistant infections are getting limited, longer, expensive and less safe.  Researchers at Purdue veterinary medicine conduct both basic and translational research to tackle the crisis of antimicrobial resistance.  

Faculty:

Dr. Sanjeev Narayanan

Dr. Narayanan
PROFESSOR AND HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE PATHOBIOLOGY

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Dr. Narayanan’s research focuses on cause and spread of antimicrobial resistance in gut microflora and food borne pathogens like E . Coli, Enterococcus and Salmonella using cattle feedlot industry as a model. His lab researches on developing new tools and practices to help reduce the use of antibiotics in food animals, which in turn affects human and environmental health through reduced spread of antibiotic resistance.  Efforts are under way to replace antibiotic usage for important cattle diseases (eg. liver abscesses) with vaccines.


Lynn F. Guptill

Guptill
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SMALL ANIMAL INTERNAL MEDICINE; CO-SECTION HEAD, SMALL ANIMAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

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Dr. Jean Stiles

Jean Stiles
PROFESSOR, OPHTHALMOLOGY; SECTION HEAD, OPHTHALMOLOGY

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Dr. Deepti Pillai

Deepti Pillai
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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Dr. G. Kenitra Hendrix

Kenitra Hammac
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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“A lack of effective antibiotics is as serious a security threat as a sudden and deadly disease outbreak,” –Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO)

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