Combating veterinary antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Mahdi Askari is a lecturer and researcher on general, diagnostic and pathogenic bacteriology and public health in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. His main fields of interest include virulence, epidemiology, pathogenesis and resistance of pathogenic Escherichia coli in animals and its zoonotic risk for humans.

Simon Menanteau-Ledouble is a microbiologist specialising in the relations between aquatic bacteria and their hosts. In recent year, the mounting issue of resistance to antibiotherapy has led him to take an interest in the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes and alternatives to the use of antibiotics

Patrícia Alexandra Curado Quintas Dinis Poeta, Full Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD)., EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Microbiology. Member of LAVQ-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, University NOVA of Lisbon. PhD in Veterinary Medicine by UTAD and Coordinator of the Research Group MicroArt- Microbiology and Antibiotic resistance Team and Head of Medical Microbiology Laboratory. Her main research interest is the characterization of antibiotic resistance mechanisms in bacteria of different origins as humans, animals, food, water and the environment, as well as the perfo