Benjamin M. Hetman
Public Health Agency of Canada
9 Papers
4 Citations
Benjamin M. Hetman is an academic researcher from Public Health Agency of Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications. Previous affiliations of Benjamin M. Hetman include University of Lethbridge & National Microbiology Laboratory.
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Papers
Integrating Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Into Quantitative Risk Assessment of Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review of Opportunities and Challenges.
Lucie Collineau,Patrick Boerlin,Carolee A. Carson,Brennan Chapman,Brennan Chapman,Aamir Fazil,Benjamin M. Hetman,Benjamin M. Hetman,Scott A. McEwen,E. Jane Parmley,Richard J. Reid-Smith,Richard J. Reid-Smith,Eduardo N. Taboada,Ben A. Smith +13 more
TL;DR: How WGS offers an opportunity to enhance the next-generation of foodborne AMR QMRA modeling is described, which allows for a more meaningful approach to explore genetic similarity among bacterial populations found at successive stages of the food chain, improving the estimation of the probability and magnitude of exposure to AMR hazards at point of consumption.
"These Aren't the Strains You're Looking for": Recovery Bias of Common Campylobacter jejuni Subtypes in Mixed Cultures.
Benjamin M. Hetman,Benjamin M. Hetman,Steven K Mutschall,Catherine D. Carrillo,James E. Thomas,Victor P. J. Gannon,G. Douglas Inglis,Eduardo N. Taboada +7 more
TL;DR: The results emphasize the importance of selecting multiple colonies per sample, and where possible, the use of both enrichment and non-enrichment isolation procedures to maximize the likelihood of recovering multiple subtypes present in a sample.
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The EpiQuant Framework for Computing Epidemiological Concordance of Microbial Subtyping Data.
Benjamin M. Hetman,Benjamin M. Hetman,Steven K. Mutschall,James E. Thomas,Victor P. J. Gannon,Clifford G. Clark,Frank Pollari,Eduardo N. Taboada +7 more
TL;DR: An analytical model is developed that summarizes the similarity of bacterial isolates using basic parameters typically provided in sampling records, using a novel framework (EpiQuant) developed in the R environment for statistical computing to assess the concordance between microbial epidemiological and molecular data.
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Rural Raccoons (Procyon lotor) Not Likely to Be a Major Driver of Antimicrobial Resistant Human Salmonella Cases in Southern Ontario, Canada: A One Health Epidemiological Assessment Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data
Nadine A. Vogt,Benjamin M. Hetman,Adam Vogt,David L. Pearl,Richard J. Reid-Smith,E. Jane Parmley,Stefanie Kadykalo,Nicol Janecko,Amrita Bharat,Michael R. Mulvey,Kim Ziebell,James D. Robertson,John H. E. Nash,Vanessa Allen,Anna Majury,Nicole Ricker,Kristin J. Bondo,Samantha E. Allen,Claire M. Jardine +18 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the rural population of raccoons on swine farms in the Grand River watershed are unlikely to be major contributors to antimicrobial resistant human Salmonella cases in this region.
Combining analytical epidemiology and genomic surveillance to identify risk factors associated with the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Heidelberg
Benjamin M. Hetman,David L. Pearl,Dillon Barker,James D. Robertson,John H. E. Nash,R. Reid-Smith,Agnes Agunos,Catherine D. Carrillo,Edward Topp,Gary Van Domselaar,E. Jane Parmley,Amrita Bharat,Michael R. Mulvey,Vanessa Allen,Eduardo N. Taboada +14 more
TL;DR: The use of antimicrobials in food and livestock agriculture, including the production of poultry, is thought to contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and the genes and plasmids that confer the resistant phenotype (ARG) as mentioned in this paper .
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