National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System

Biography

Dr. Patrick McDermott is Director of the Division of Animal and Food Microbiology and Director of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) at the Office of Research. NARMS was established in 1996 and is an interagency collaborative effort between the FDA, USDA and CDC that tracks antibiotic resistance in bacteria from retail meats, food producing animals and human clinical cases of infection. DAFM conducts the retail meat testing component of NARMS, and conducts microbiological research related to animal health and food safety.  His work is aimed at understanding the genetic mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, how resistance emerges and spreads, and the impact of interventions designed to limit resistance in food animal production.

Research

• The evolution, persistence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in foodborne bacteria
• Molecular epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance genes

Select Publications

Tate H, Ayers S, Nyirabahizi E, Li C, Borenstein S, Young S, Rice-Trujillo C, Saint Fleurant S, Bodeis-Jones S, Li X, Tobin-D'Angelo M, Volkova V, Hardy R, Mingle L, M'ikanatha NM, Ruesch L, Whitehouse CA, Tyson GH, Strain E, McDermott PF.  Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Select Bacteria From Retail Seafood-United States, 2019. Front Microbiol. 2022 Jun 23;13:928509. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.928509. 

Tate H, Li C, Nyirabahizi E, Tyson GH, Zhao S, Rice-Trujillo C, Jones SB, Ayers S, M'ikanatha NM, Hanna S, Ruesch L, Cavanaugh ME, Laksanalamai P, Mingle L, Matzinger SR, McDermott PF. A National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System Survey of Antimicrobial-Resistant Foodborne Bacteria Isolated from Retail Veal in the United States. J Food Prot. 2021 Oct 1;84(10):1749-1759. doi: 10.4315/JFP-21-005. 

McDermott PF, Davis JJ. Predicting antimicrobial susceptibility from the bacterial genome: A new paradigm for one health resistance monitoring. J Vet Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Mar;44(2):223-237. doi: 10.1111/jvp.12913.