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
BSAVA: Antibacterial Use Poster
Poster to help with antibiotic selection
CPHAZ: Worms & Germs Blog
Educational website on infectious diseases of companion animals
FECAVA: Advice on Responsible Use of Antimicrobials
Decision tree: Should I use antimicrobials in this patient?
FECAVA: Recommendations for Antimicrobial Therapy
Table with empirical antimicrobials for common conditions in companion animals
ISCAID: Small Animal UTI Guidelines
Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of bacterial UTI's
NZVA: Guidelines for Dogs and Cats
Guidelines for the clinical use of antimicrobials
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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.