Analyzing multidrug resistance patterns across the food supply chain using association rule mining.

Abstract excerpt

We used the machine learning method association rule mining to analyze multidrug resistance (MDR) among cattle-associated Escherichia coli along the food supply chain in the USA. All datasets were stratified by year, source, and resistance indicator (genotypic/phenotypic). Pruned rulesets were compared by calculating the proportion of rules from a comparison ruleset that are captured in a reference ruleset....

Topics

• Cattle
• Animals
• Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
• Escherichia coli
• United States
• Cattle Diseases