Veterinary Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources | Center for One Health Research

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.

ALL RESOURCES Empiric Guidance Result Interpretation General Stewardship

BSAVA: Antibacterial Use Poster

Poster to help with antibiotic selection

Dogs

Cats

Clinician's Brief: C&S Reports

Interpretation of C&S Results (account required)

CLSI: Breakpoints

Veterinary breakpoint tables

CLSI: VET09

Textbook on AST data available for purchase

CoE: Food Animal Legislative Compliance

Guidance on compliance with federal legislation

Cattle

CPHAZ: Worms & Germs Blog

Educational website on infectious diseases of companion animals

Dogs

Cats

Cattle

FECAVA: Advice on Responsible Use of Antimicrobials

Decision tree: Should I use antimicrobials in this patient?

Dogs

Cats

FECAVA: Recommendations for Antimicrobial Therapy

Table with empirical antimicrobials for common conditions in companion animals

Dogs

Cats

IDEXX: MIC Interpretation

Microbiology guide to MIC interpretation

ISCAID: Canine SBF Guidelines

Guidelines for canine superficial bacterial folliculitis

Dogs

ISCAID: Small Animal UTI Guidelines

Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of bacterial UTI's

Dogs

Cats

MSU VDL: AST Data Use

Use of AST data to guide therapy

MSU VDL: C&S Results

Importance and interpretation of AST

NZVA: Dairy Guidelines

Antibiotic judicious use guidelines for dairy cattle

Cattle

NZVA: Guidelines for Dogs and Cats

Guidelines for the clinical use of antimicrobials

Dogs

Cats

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.