Antibiotic Resistance in Broiler Chickens in Northern Coastal Ecuador

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg

Co-Investigators

Betsy Foxman, Carl Marrs, Lixin Zhang, Gabriel Trueba, William Cevallos Trujillo, James Trostle, Karen Levy, Alan Hubbard

Funding Sources

National Science Foundation

About this Project

This study aims to characterize the dynamics of the emergence of antibiotic resistance in chickens under different antibiotic usage regimes on small-scale poultry farms and examine the relative importance of independent antibiotic-induced evolution of resistance versus environmental (litter) and chicken-to-chicken transmission of resistance.