Peter Davies

University of Minnesota - United States Author

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Professor, Department of Veterinary Population Medicine (VPM) College of Veterinary Medicine

PhD, University of Sydney, New South Wales

BVSc (Honors), Melbourne University

Research Summary/Interests

Swine health and production
Foodborne pathogens and zoonotic disease in food animal production systems
Veterinary epidemiology
Antimicrobial use in food animal production and antimicrobial resistance
Disease surveillance and regional disease control
Societal issues related to food animal production

Updated CV 17-Feb-2017

Peter Davies

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Figure 2: Salmonella prevalence in retail meats in the USA (adapted from FDA, 2016)

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Salmonella control in pigs in the USA – focus on slaughter hygiene

After over 20 years of research effort, the question of how to balance efforts in Salmonella control among the preharvest, harvest, and post-harvest sectors remains alive, but ‘silver bullets’ for on-farm control of Salmonella in pigs have proven elusive.

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24-Jul-2018damien-wardDear D Burch, can you point me in the direction of any papers supporting your view re "slaughterhouse to fork" in the UK?

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Conceptual model of pathways of exposure and risks of infection with livestock associated S. aureus

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Livestock associated MRSA – what is the appropriate level of concern?

After more than a decade there is little to suggest that LA-MRSA poses an imminent threat to public health, even in countries where prevalence is high in pigs.

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09-Mar-2017David BurchDear Peter you are absolutely correct that the risk to Public Health is very low. We have recently carried out a risk assessment and based on Danish results (Danmap 2015), approximately 56.4% of Danish pig farmers are likely to be carriers. Again using Danish infetion and colonisation figures this would affect 0.0028% of the population, but 87% of these are pig associated. Denmark also produces a large number of pigs per human population (11 times the EU Average) so immediately the number falls to 0.00025% of population. If you take out the pig worker infections it goes down to 0.000034% or 0.034 people/100,000 population, which is incredibly low. The general population can be carrying 1-2% MRSA up their noses at any one time so beside pig workers the infection in mna is incredibly low. Best regards David

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Salmonella control in pigs in the USA – focus on slaughter hygiene

Livestock associated MRSA – what is the appropriate level of concern?

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