Daniel Ekhlas

TEAGASC - The Irish Food and Agriculture Authority - Ireland Author

Daniel Ekhlas is a Walsh Scholar Ph.D. student at Teagasc and the University College Dublin, studying the impact of zinc oxide supplementation on the development of antimicrobial resistances on pig farms in Ireland.

In 2016, he completed his B.Sc. in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Graz, Austria (“Vital and Lethal Functions of Aif1 and its Interactors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 and TB50”).

From 2016-2017, Mr. Ekhlas continued his studies abroad at the University of Tokyo, Japan in form of a student exchange program and completed his M.Sc. in Biotechnology at the University of Graz, Austria in 2018 (“Microbial Community Changes Associated with Combined Sewer Overflow in an Urban River in Tokyo”).

Since 2018, Mr. Ekhlas has been investigating antimicrobial resistance development and dissemination on Irish pig farms together with his colleague Mr. Juan Manuel Ortiz Sanjuan, under the supervision of Dr. Kaye Burgess, Dr. Finola Leonard.

Updated CV 04-Jun-2021

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Figure 2. Having the room ready before the piglets arrive and having all the material in order and clean makes a huge difference in terms of hygiene, efficiency, and comfort for the piglets.

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Removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (2/2): Beyond taking nutritional actions

What factors can help with managing piglets without in-feed antibiotics and ZnO?

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Removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (1/2): Why, when and how?

If your motivation to stop using in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide is to comply with regulations, think again. What does it take to remove in-feed medication?

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07-Jul-2021Marcelo LangIn the USA, we say that antibiotics are like crutches that help you for a while, but can become a bigger problem if you don't get rid of them after the healing is done. Some producers may not think possible weaning pigs without resorting to antibiotics or ZnO, but experience of many other producers prove otherwise.

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Removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (2/2): Beyond taking nutritional actions

Removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (1/2): Why, when and how?

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