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C-EnterNet 2007 Annual Report

National Integrated Enteric Pathogen Surveillance Program

Acknowledgements

C-EnterNet Program Lead:

Frank Pollari

C-EnterNet Scientific Team/Authors/Data Analysis:

Angela Cook
Barbara Marshall
Andrea Nesbitt
Katarina Pintar
Frank Pollari
André Ravel

Other C-EnterNet Team Members:

Rosa Kliese (Administrative Support)

David Quaile (Field Technician)

Nancy Sittler (Region of Waterloo Public Health Sentinel Site Coordinator)

C-EnterNet Collaborators:

C-EnterNet Advisory Committee

Fred Angulo, Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), CDC

Michael Brodsky, Brodsky Consultants

Mike Cassidy, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs

George Eng, Vancouver Coastal Health

Jeff Farber, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Canada

Nelson Fok, Capital Health, Edmonton

Murray Fyfe, Vancouver Island Health Authority

Vic Gannon, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada

Colette Gaulin, Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Province of Quebec

Ian Gemmill, Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Health Unit

Jamie Hockin, Public Health Training & Applications Division, Public Health Agency of Canada

Peter Huck, University of Waterloo

Rebecca Irwin, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada

Amin Kabani, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada

Jean Kamanzi, Food Safety Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Wayne Lees, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives

Shannon Majowicz, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada

Anne Maki, Public Health Laboratories Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care

Scott McEwen, Department of Population Medicine, O.V.C., University of Guelph

Maria Nazarowec-White, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Research, Food Safety & Quality

Pierre Payment, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Jane Pritchard, Food Safety & Quality Branch, B.C. Agriculture and Lands

Sam Ratnam, Health and Community Services, Newfoundland Public Health Laboratories

Stephanie McFadyen, Water Quality and Health Bureau, Health Canada

Alicia Sarabia, Credit Valley Hospital

Health Canada – Bureau of Microbial Hazards

Sabah Bidawid, Brent Dixon, Jeff Farber, Karine Hebert, Kirsten Mattison, Oksana Mykytczuk, Franco Pagotto, Lorna Parrington, Anu Shukla, Kevin Tyler

Health Canada – Water Quality and Health Bureau

Stephanie McFadyen, Diane Medeiros

Region of Waterloo Public Health

Popy Dimoulas-Graham, Henry Garcia, Peter Heywood, Lewinda Knowles, Chris Komorowski, Liana Nolan, Doug Quibell, Theresa Schumilas, Daniela Seskar-Hencic, Nancy Sittler, Hsiu-Li Wang, public health inspectors, public health staff, Community Services Committee

Region of Waterloo Water Services

Nancy Kodousek, Olga Vrentzos, Tim Walton

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Canadian Water Network

Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

University of Waterloo

Peter Huck, Michele Van Dyke

Grand River Conservation Authority

Mark Anderson

University of Guelph

Department of Population Medicine, Bryan Bloomfield, Robert Friendship, Nicol Janecko, David Kelton, Scott McEwen, Jessie Smitham, David Waltner-Toews, Scott Weese

Laboratory Services Division

Susan Lee, Joseph Odumeru, Dimi Oke, laboratory staff

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Public Health Laboratories Branch

John Aldom, Peter Boleszchuk, Abdul Chagla, Frances Jamieson, Jeannine Labelle, Marina Lombos, Donald Low, Anne Maki

Enteric and Zoonotic Diseases Unit, Infectious Diseases Branch

Dean Middleton

Grand River Hospital Regional Microbiology Laboratory

John Vanderlaan

LifeLabs (formerly MDS Laboratory Services)

Colette Béchard, Deborah Yamamura

Canadian Medical Laboratories

Maureen Lo, Phil Stuart, Maria Suglio

Gamma-Dynacare Laboratories

Kathy Biers, Julius Kapala

B.C. Centre for Disease Control

Eleni Galanis, Corinne Ong, Judith Isaac-Renton

Waterloo Wellington Infection Control Network

Cathy Egan

Public Health Agency of Canada

National Microbiology Laboratory

Cliff Clark, Michael Mulvey, Celine Nadon, Lai-King Ng

Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses

Brent Avery, Carolee Carson, Ann-Marie Cochrane, Linda Cole, Abigail Crocker, Danielle Daignault, Anne Deckert, Andrea Desruisseau, Lucie Dutil, Nina Enriquez, Aamir Fazil, Christine Forsberg, Shelley Frost, Judy Greig, Rebecca Irwin, Mohamed Karmali, Anna Lammerding, David Léger, Elroy Mann, Ketna Mistry, Anne Muckle, Manuel Navas, Ann Perets, Andrijana Rajic, Susan Read, Richard Reid-Smith, Jan Sargeant, Rama Viswanathan, Betty Wilkie, Irene Yong, Kim Ziebell

Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Kathryn Doré, Victoria Edge, Andrea Ellis, Rita Finley, Manon Fleury, James Flint, Sandy Isaacs, Diane MacDonald, Shannon Majowicz, Pia Muchaal, Paul Sockett, Marsha Taylor, Kate Thomas, Mark Raizenne

We are very thankful for the support of the swine, dairy, beef and poultry producers who participated in the sampling program in 2007, as well as the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Pork Council, Ontario Cattlemen's Association, Waterloo Wellington Cattlemen's Association and Chicken Farmers of Ontario for their support.

We thank the Canadian Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program (CIPARS).

We thank the field workers, laboratory technicians, data management staff, researchers, consultants and students for their contributions.

Financial Support for C-EnterNet 2007:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Agriculture Policy Framework)

Canadian Water Network

Health Canada

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Health Agency of Canada (Infectious Disease and Emergency Preparedness Branch)

Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses

Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Suggested citation:

Government of Canada. Canadian National Integrated Enteric Pathogen Surveillance System (C-EnterNet) 2007 Annual Report. Guelph, ON: Public Health Agency of Canada, 2009.