Members

RESEARCH CHAIR SALUBRITY OF MEAT

- Research team - Fields of activities - Research themes - Achievements - Publications -

Principal investigator : Dr. Ann Letellier

Telephone :  (450) 773-8521, office 8640 or 8242

Fax :            (450) 778-8113

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All laboratory's members, January 2007.

Photo courtesy of Marco Langlois (DGTIC)

Founder :

  • Dr. Sylvain Quessy

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    Administrative Assistants :

    • Hélène Bergeron
    • Sophie Lachambre

    Research Agents / Laboratory Technicians :

    • Bénédicte Bouchet
    • Karine Giguère

    Ph.D Student :

    • Lan Tran Thi Quynh
      Supervision : Dr Martine Boulianne,
      co-supervision : Dr Sylvain Quessy
      Since September 2005
    • Alexandre Thibodeau
      Co-supervision : Dr Sylvain Quessy and Dr Ève-Lyne Guévremont
      Since May 2007
    • Cindy-Love Tremblay
      Supervision : Dr Marie Archambault, 
      Co-supervision : Dr Jérôme del Castillo
      Since May 2006

    M.Sc Students :

    • Marie-Perle Andriamiarisoa
      Supervision : Dr Sylvain Quessy, co-supervision : Dr Martine Boulianne
      Since January 2009
    • Michael Beaudry Ferland
      Supervision : Dr Marie Archambault, co-supervision : Dr François Malouin
      Since September 2008
    • Yun Cui
      Supervision : Dr Martine Boulianne, co-supervision : Dr Sylvette Laurent-Lewandowski
      Since September 2009
    • Julien Delisle
      Co-supervision :  Dr Sylvain Quessy and Dr Gilles Fecteau
      Since May 2006
    • K. Paul Kaboré
      Supervision : Dr John M. Fairbrother
      Since September 2007
    • Guillaume Larivière-Gauthier
      Co-supervision : Dr Sylvain Quessy and Dr Philippe Fravalo
      Since May 2009

     

    FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES

    Four (4) majors themes :

    • Research in salubrity of meat
    • Environmental research
    • Accreditation for quality control in farms
    • HACCP diagnosis

     

    RESEARCH THEMES

    • Prevalence of Campylocbacter in slaughterhouse pigs and evaluation of the risk associated with its presence.
    • Epidemiology of Campylobacter in chicken.
    • Epidemiology and survival of Cryptosporidium parvum in the environment.
    • Control of Salmonella infection in pigs.
    • Use of antimicrobial agents and development of resistance in porcine bacterial strains.
    • Development of a vaccine against Salmonella in pigs.

     

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    • Improve knowledge on the epidemiology of principal food pathogens in farms.
    • Optimize techniques for the detection of food pathogens in slaughterhouses.
    • Characterize the human risk for the presence of some bacterial strains in poultry.
    • Develop of a serologic assay to screen the presence of Salmonella in healthy carrier pigs.
    • Develop a serologic assay to screen the presence of Yersinia enterocolitica in healthy carrier pigs.
    • Develop a vaccine against S. suis infections.
    • Development and validation of HACCP models for the CQATM program in swine herds in Quebec.

     

    PUBLICATIONS

    2006

    Perron, G.G., S. Quessy, A. Letellier, G. Bell. (2006). Genotypic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in asymptomatic Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104. Infect. Genet. Evol. Oct. 13.

    2004

    Côté, S., A. Letellier, L. Lessard, S. Quessy. (2004). Distribution of Salmonella in tissues following natural and experimental infection in pigs. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research 68:241-248.

    2001

    DesRosiers, A., J. M. Fairbrother, R. Johnson, C. Desautels, A. Letellier and S. Quessy. (2001). Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of Escherichia coli verotoxin-producting isolates from humans and pigs. J. of Food Protection 64 : 1904-1911.

    Letellier, A., S. Messier, L. Lessard, S. Chénier and S. Quessy. (2001) Host response to various treatments to reduce Salmonella infections in swine. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research 65 : 168-172

    2000

    Letellier, A., S. Messier and S. Quessy. (2000). Assessment of various treatments to reduce carriage of Salmonella in swine.  Can. J. Vet. Res. 64(1):27-31.