Congratulations to Rachel Courtice on her defense! Rachel's graduate research focused on the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in E. coli and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius causing canine urinary tract infections over a 4 year period. For the most part Rachel's results are a good news story, resistance is still remarkably rare in our region; but she did identify a number of ESBL producing E. coli and even strain belonging to ST131 which possessed the aac6-Ib-cr quinolone

Once again the Department of Veterinary Microbiology had a great showing at the Canadian Society of Microbiologists annual conference, this time in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Always enjoy the chance to meet up with old friends and make some new ones at CSM! Kezia Fourie had the opportunity to give a talk on her study looking at how selective media change our view of antimicrobial resistance surveillance by using quantitative culture methods, such a proud supervisor moment! Rachel Co