Siddhartha Thakur

Bio

Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is a Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. He is the Director of Global Health program at both the College of Veterinary Medicine and the NC State University. He was the Associate Director at the Comparative Medicine Institute and led the Emerging and Infectious Diseases Research program. He received his Degree in Veterinary Medicine and Master of Veterinary Public Health from India. He earned his Ph.D. in Population Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State. Before joining the faculty at NC State University, Dr. Thakur was an Oakridge Research Fellow at Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA, Maryland. He espouses the concepts of “One Health” and seeks to understand how antimicrobial resistance develops in “superbugs” that affect animal and human health. He has won numerous awards including the Larry Beuchat Young Researcher Award by the International Association for Food and the Outstanding Global Engagement award by NC State. He is currently an NC State Chancellor faculty scholar. Dr. Thakur has authored or co-authored 45 peer-reviewed publications and edited two books.

AFFILIATIONS

American Society for Microbiology
International Association for Food Protection
Duke One Health, https://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/

CERTIFICATIONS

Oakridge Research Associated Universities Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, 20708. 2005-2007.
Doctor of Philosophy in Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606. 2002-2005.
Master of Veterinary Science in Veterinary Public Health, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, India. 1998-2000.
Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Gobind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Udham Singh Nagar, India. 1993-1998.

Publications

• Antimicrobial resistance in food-borne pathogens at the human-animal interface: Results from a large surveillance study in India , ONE HEALTH (2024)
• Characteristics of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from retail meat products in North Carolina , PLOS ONE (2024)
• Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterizations of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Diverse Retail Meat Samples in North Carolina During 2018-2019 , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
• Serovar-level identification of bacterial foodborne pathogens from full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing , MSYSTEMS (2024)
• Detection of resistance and virulence plasmids in Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni isolated from North Carolina food animal production, 2018-2019 , FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (2023)
• Draft Genome Sequences of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis Coisolated from Polymicrobial Extraintestinal Infections of Chickens and Turkeys , MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS (2023)
• Draft genome sequences of 12 Escherichia coli co-isolated with Enterococcus spp. from dogs with polybacterial bacteriuria at a veterinary hospital , MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS (2023)
• Uncovering changes in microbiome profiles across commercial and backyard poultry farming systems , MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM (2023)
• Characterization of Salmonella enterica Contamination in Pork and Poultry Meat from Sao Paulo/Brazil: Serotypes, Genotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles , PATHOGENS (2022)
• Evidence of sheep and abattoir environment as important reservoirs of multidrug-resistant Salmonella and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli , International Journal of Food Microbiology (2022)