Accounting service
Chi-Ho, Liu
Abstract
The personnel quota for the AHRI's Branch Office of Accounting Services was reduced during the government's personnel streamlining and organizational reengineering. At first, its accounting operation had been planned to be subsumed under the headquarters' accounting office. However, after careful consideration of the branch's healthy revenue, efficient business practices, it was decided not to make the proposed change, which would have created massively extra load of work for the head office anyway. Under the headquarters' directive and coordination, the branch office had to recruit someone among its certified staff to be in charge of the accounting business so as to ensure the continuity of the branch office's daily operation. In2010, I was appointed to be responsible for the accounting business of the branch office, concurrent to my other job as a researcher at the AHRI. Since the start of my tenure, the branch has delivered some excellent funding implementation results. The projects of animal health research development between 2014-2019 showed 99.91% of budget implementation efficiency, while in the general administrative affairs, the budget implementation efficiency reached a level of 99.93% for the same period. Furthermore, the execution rate of annual registration or processing fees was 100% and the miscellaneous incomes were also excellent between 2014-2018. In short, the generated revenues in this period exceeded our annual budgets. These results would not have been possible without the contribution provided by the high-quality inspection services delivered by our hard-working staff. I have learned so much about the importance and constraints of abiding to rules and regulations civil servants have be faced with in their daily work since I took over this job, having experienced various legal challenges and internal control first hand. . During this brief introduction to some concepts of internal control and due diligent operation, I have shared with you from a vet’s perspective some key issues you need to keep in mind for your work. I hope my talk is of great use to you.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in Diseased Pigs
Nan-Ling Kuan
Abstract
Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) are a rapidly evolving group of β-lactamases that share the ability to hydrolyze third-generation cephalosporins, penicillins, and aztreonam. Since 2000, the incidence of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae infections increased globally in human cases. In parallel, ESBL-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) has increasingly been reported in livestock, the food chain and companion animals. In this study, 239 isolates of E. coli from diseased pigs samples were included from 2013 to 2019. Twenty-two ESBL-EC out of 239 isolates were confirmed by phenotyping and genotyping, which were mainly presented as bla genes, such as blaCTX-M (90.9%), blaTEM (31.8%) and blaSHV (9.1%). The amount in which, the dominant bla genes variant were blaCTX-M-55 (36.4%), followed by blaCTX-M-14 and blaTEM-234 (27.3%). All the ESBL-EC were resistant to tetracycline, mostly resistant to ceftiofur and SXT (95.5%), followed by gentamycin (81.8%), enrofloxacin (54.5%) and amoxicillin (31.8%). All isolates remain the sensitivity to imipenem.