The Department of Animal Science will prepare a map on resistance to E. coli antibiotics in lambs in Spain

The Aragon Agrifood Research and Technology Center (CITA) contributes its scientific experience in eight agrifood innovation and transfer projects submitted to the 2023 call by the Operational Groups of the European Innovation Association (AEI), which were previously called Groups of Cooperation of the Rural Development Program of the Government of Aragon. These projects are part of the call for the National Strategic Program of the PAC 2023-2027 for this year. The Department of Animal Science is going to cooperate in four projects, one of them being the 'Use of Big Data for the prudent use of antibiotics in sheep farms in Aragon', with the participation of the researcher Clara Marín. The main objective of this work will be to make a map of resistance to antibiotics of the main agent that causes diarrhea in lambs (E. coli), in order to create an application that allows the rapid selection of the ideal antibiotic treatment in the event of an outbreak of diarrhea. in lambs. On the ...