Healthy Animals
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
AMR develops when bacteria, fungi or viruses are exposed to antibiotics, antifungals or antivirals. As a result, the antimicrobials become ineffective and infections in animals and humans may persist. In addition, medical interventions including surgery, chemotherapy and stem cell therapy may become impossible.
AMR is considered the biggest global threat of Health and Food Safety.
AMR Insights
For professionals in animal husbandry who wish to prevent Antimicrobial resistance, AMR Insights offers selected, global information and data, specific education and extensive networking and partnering opportunities.
AMR Insights is for:
- Livestock breeders and animal caretakers
- Veterinarians for production animals
- Veterinarians for companion animals
- Lab technicians in contract analysis laboratories
- Veterinary regulatory authorities staff
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10 December 2025Dynamics of the gut microbiome and resistome in response to prophylactic antibiotic treatment in post-surgical giant pandas
Researchers administered the antibiotic cefotaxime to three surgically treated giant pandas and tracked changes in their gut microbiome and resistome over time using 16S rRNA sequencing and shotgun metagenomics. They found that antibiotic treatment caused a sharp shift in bacterial community composition (notably a rise in Pseudomonadota and drop in Bacillota), and reduced microbial diversity; […]
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02 December 2025Resapath French surveillance network for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from diseased animals
The 2024 RESAPATH report, based on a record 121,872 antimicrobial susceptibility tests (+30% vs. 2023), provides a strengthened evidence base for monitoring antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in clinical bacterial isolates from French livestock and companion animals. Across species, Escherichia coli remained the primary indicator organism, showing continued declines in multidrug resistance and stable or decreasing resistance […]
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20 November 2025Flattening Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance Levels in Indicator E. coli in Dutch Livestock
A large analysis of more than 12,000 Escherichia coli isolates collected from Dutch broilers, fattening pigs and veal calves between 2010 and 2023 shows that, although antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in livestock declined sharply during the first years of the Netherlands’ antibiotic-reduction policies (2010–2018), progress has largely stalled in the more recent 2019–2023 period. Resistance against […]
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