In collaboration with colleagues at the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL), UW COHR has gathered resources for veterinary antimicrobial stewardship from experts around the world and organized them into an easily searchable format.
Our goal is to enable veterinary clinicians to quickly find decision support tools, guidelines, online training, practice and client resources, and more all in one place. This site is organized into 3 main pages:
- Click on the Empiric Guidance page below to find resources to support empiric antimicrobial selection for a given species and condition.
- Click on the Result Interpretation page below to access resources on how to interpret culture and susceptibility testing results.
- Click on the General Stewardship page below to find general resources on antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary medicine including some client handouts and practice-level tools.
Abbreviations:
- The first abbreviation in each resource title stands for the organization that created the resource
- For example, "AABP: AMS Guidelines" is a resource from the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP)
- Other key title abbreviations:
- AMR: Antimicrobial resistance
- AMS: Antimicrobial stewardship
- AMU: Antimicrobial use
- AST: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
AIDAP: Antibiotic Prescribing Guidelines
Detailed guidelines for AMU in dogs and cats
ALFA/MLA: Guidelines for the Australian Cattle Feedlot Industry
Guidelines for antimicrobial use in feedlot cattle
Cattle
AMR Vet Collective: AMS Course
Online course in veterinary antimicrobial stewardship
AMR Vet Collective: Practice Resources
Downloadable posters on AMR to share with staff and/or clients
AVMA: AMU Client Resource
Webpage for clients on AMU in vetmed
AVMA: Does this cat need antibiotics?
Table with conditions and indications for antimicrobials (membership required)
Cats
AVMA: Does this dog need antibiotics?
Table with conditions and indications for antimicrobials (membership required)
Dogs
AVMA: FAQs for pet owners
Webpage resource for clients on antimicrobial use and resistance
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Funding
This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and in part by the Washington Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, which is supported by the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Disease Cooperative Agreement through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.