Diarra Moussa

Research Scientist
Agriculture and Agri-Food
Guelph Food Research Centre
Canada

Biography

Diarra Moussa is an Adjunct professor in the University of British Columbia. Working as eminent Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Food Science,Faculty of Science, Biology. Along with that he is a Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Food Protection Member of Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network. He is working on the projects:Promoting food safety, animal health, animal welfare, environmental quality, and sustainability of beef production by developing management approaches focusing on enhancement of immunity and understanding the interactions of bacteria with their hosts. Effects of the use of growth promoters on the hypermutability and antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli 0157; molecular basis of hypermutability Assessment and management of bacterial contaminants carried in animal productions and their environment. Impact of antimicrobial agents used as growth promoters on the antimicrobial resistance profiles of the intestinal bacterial flora of broiler chickens Effect of cranberry extract against foodborne bacterial pathogens and on the immune responses of broiler chickens. Prevalence of Escherichia fergusonni in broilers.

Research Intrest

poultry cattle on farm food safety - microbiology infectious diseases (bacterial) pathogenesis of foodborne bacteria antibiotic resistance alternatives to antibiotics.

List of Publications
Aslam M, Mehdi T, Bravo CN, Lai V, Rempel H, Manges A, et al.(2014) Characterization of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Retail Poultry Meats from Alberta. Canada International Journal of Food Microbiology. 177:49-56.
Yang Y, Wang Q, Diarra MS, Yu H, Hua Y, et al.(2016). Functional assessment of encapsulated citral for controlling necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens.Poultry Science 95:780-789.
Narvaez-Bravo C, Toufeer M, Weese JS, Diarra MS, Deckert A, Reid-Smith RJ, et al.(2016). Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Canadian commercial pork processing plants. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 120:770-780.

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