About Me
John F. Prescott is a retired University Professor Emeritus from the University of Guelph, where he was Chair, Department of Pathobiology, 2003-2018. He has very diverse interests in bacterial infections in animals, but is best known for work on Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals and in promoting better use of antimicrobial drug use in animals. He is the originator, editor and an author of the text “Antimicrobial Therapy in Veterinary Medicine”, now in its fifth edition. He was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on the potential socio-economic impacts of AMR in Canada (“When Antibiotics Fail”, 2019). More recent research interests are in understanding necrotic enteritis of broiler chickens so as to find ways to reduce antimicrobial use, and on the role of Clostridium perfringens in other serious intestinal infections of animals.