This collection invites innovative research on antimicrobial resistance in animals, focusing on mechanisms, transmission, surveillance, stewardship, and novel interventions.

International guidance on antibiotic use in animals is sorely needed ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images By Scott Weese Sept. 25, 2024 Weese, D.V.M., is a professor at the University of Guelph.

Please describe if antimicrobial use practices in companion animals, including extralabel use, have impacted the development of antimicrobial resistance in human bacterial pathogens.

More information: Sophia M. Kenney et al, Antimicrobial Resistance and Zoonotic Potential of Nontyphoidal Salmonella From Household Dogs, Zoonoses and Public Health (2024). DOI: 10.1111/zph.13174 ...

Resistance evolves naturally over time, but the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs in medicine and agriculture are speeding it up. Fixing this problem will require a focus on human, animal ...

Study: Towards One Health surveillance of antibiotic resistance: characterisation and mapping of existing programmes in humans, animals, food and the environment in France, 2021.

NPR's Scott Simon asks William Flynn, a deputy director at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, about the agency's tightening of regulations around antimicrobial drugs for animals.

Some 107,500 tons of antimicrobial drugs—medicine used to kill or impede microorganisms including fungi, bacteria, viruses and parasites—will be used on farmed pigs, chickens, cows and sheep ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG2, SDG3 and SDG17. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health and veterinary medicine. Effective ...