More than a mouthful, the Streptococcus Suis bacterium is a leading cause of mortality in the pig industry worldwide and drives high volumes of antimicrobial use. With its sugar capsule and its multiple and varied strains, this sneaky pathogen evades attempts to control its spread. In this episode, we dive into the cutting-edge of vaccine development and learn about glycoconjugate vaccines and using big data to find hypothetical proteins. 

Innovating Alternatives is a serialized podcast that will delve into the issue of antimicrobial resistance, a slow-moving pandemic that risks erasing the last 80 years of modern medicine’s progress. We will take you right to the cutting edge of science, where researchers are developing new and surprising alternatives to antibiotics and innovative solutions to reduce the use of antimicrobials in livestock and aquaculture production.

For show notes please visit: https://www.idrc.ca/en/research-in-action/innovating-alternatives

Get in touch and let us know what you think of the podcast by email innovetamr@idrc.ca or on twitter @Livestock_IDRC  

To learn more about the Innovative Veterinary Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (InnoVet-AMR) initiative please visit: https://www.idrc.ca/en/initiative/innovet-amr-innovative-veterinary-solutions-antimicrobial-resistance

Image: IDRC/Bartay
Caption: Culturing pig lung sample to see if Streptococcus Suis is present

5 | Streptococcus Suis, have you tidied your bedroom?

To celebrate World One Health Day, Innovating Alternative brings you a bonus episode! This short story about rainforests and kissing beetles illustrates the One Health concept in action.

Get in touch and let us know what you think of the podcast by email innovetamr@idrc.ca or on twitter @Livestock_IDRC.
Production: This mini episode was developed and produced by Eric Greer and Evelyn Baraké. Sound design by Eric Greer.  

Music Credits: Royalty free music by Bensound (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/enigmatic)

Photo Credit: Felipe Guhl, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

The Innovating Alternatives podcast profiles research projects funded under the Innovative Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (InnoVet-AMR) initiative, a CA$27.9 million partnership between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF).

Full transcript & shownotes available 
in English: https://www.idrc.ca/sites/default/files/2021-11/shownotes-one_health_day-mini_ep-en.pdf
and in French:https://www.idrc.ca/sites/default/files/2021-11/shownotes-one_health_day-mini_ep-fr.pdf

Bonus Episode: A Charismatic Beetle

Chickens, mangoes and hypothetical shopping. In this episode we explore phages, the viruses of bacteria. We talk to researchers who are looking to harness bacteria-killing abilities of phages to tackle the issue of Salmonella in poultry farming in Kenya and Pakistan and how this novel technology might be perceived and adopted by end-users.

Innovating Alternatives is a serialized podcast series that will take you right to the cutting edge of science, where researchers are developing new and surprising alternatives to antibiotics and innovative solutions to reduce the use of antimicrobials in livestock and aquaculture production.

For show notes please visit: https://www.idrc.ca/en/research-in-action/innovating-alternatives

Get in touch and let us know what you think of the podcast by email innovetamr@idrc.ca or on twitter @Livestock_IDRC  

To learn more about the Innovative Veterinary Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (InnoVet-AMR) initiative please visit: https://www.idrc.ca/en/initiative/innovet-amr-innovative-veterinary-solutions-antimicrobial-resistance

Image:  By Emily Brown combined the pictures ‘Phage’ by Dr Graham Beards, also licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0., and ‘Bxz2_Plaque’ by Deborah Jacobs-Sera and Graham Hatfull. - Combination + modification of the pictures ‘Phage’ by Dr Graham Beards, also licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0., and ‘Bxz2_Plaque’ by Deborah Jacobs-Sera and Graham Hatfull., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99696994

Caption: Transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall; the magnification is approximately 200,000.

3 | Phages: My enemy's enemy is my friend

Innovating Alternatives – a podcast about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the researchers around the globe who are working to reduce it. How, by developing innovative alternatives to reduce and replace antimicrobial use in food animal production.

3 | Phages: My enemy's enemy is my friend

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