International conference on antimicrobial in veterinary medicine is held once in two years and is considered one of the most important events in the industry. This year at the conference are the world's best experts in the veterinary pharmaceutical industry, biochemistry, representatives of the Food and agriculture organization of the UN (FAO), office International des Epizooties (OIE) and the scientific research centers of Europe, USA and Canada.

Expert presentations on strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, new developments in biochemistry and molecular biology to improve antibiotic drugs, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics used in veterinary medicine of antibiotics.

Employee VGNKI Olga Ivanova presented a poster "Monitoring and control of AMR (antimicrobial resistance) in livestock products in the Russian Federation" (Monitoring and control of AMR in products of animal origin in the Russian Federation). The report presents the latest results of research programmes VGNKI "Veterinary monitoring and analysis of risks of emergence of resistance of zoonotic bacteria to antimicrobial means."

In 2018, the programme has studied the stability of the 150 isolates of various bacteria to different antibiotics. Also discovered a new plasmid – a small DNA molecule encoding the development of resistance in bacteria of the genus Salmonella to penicillin, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, and sulfonamides. The obtained results correlate with previously identified data scientists from leading laboratories in the US and Italy.