Lauren Wind successfully defended her thesis work entitled, “Persistence of Culturable Antibiotic Resistant Fecal Coliforms from Manure-Amended Vegetable Fields”. This thesis explores the effects of crop (lettuce, radish) and fertilizer type (inorganic, compost, raw manure) on the incidence and persistence of antibiotic-resistant fecal coliforms, a common family of fecal indicator bacteria used to track the environmental spread of antibiotic resistance.
Reducing Antibiotic Resistance
From Farm to Fork