Veterinary Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources

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

 

ALL RESOURCES          Empiric Guidance         Result Interpretation         General Stewardship

UniMelb: Antibiotic Selection for UTIs

Decision tree for UTIs in dogs and cats

Dogs

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Cats

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UniMelb: Bovine Medical Guidelines

Australian prescribing guidelines by syndrome or body system

UniMelb: Companion Animal Medical Guidelines

Australian prescribing guidelines by syndrome or body system

Dogs

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Cats

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UniMelb: Guide for AMU in Dogs and Cats

Visual resource with pharmacology and spectrum of activity of antimicrobials

Dogs

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Cats

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VIN: AST Results

Guide to interpretation of susceptibility results

WADDL: AST

Overview of AST methods and interpretation

WSU: Veterinary Medicine Extension

Blog with updates on ag animal health

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.