One Health and antimicrobial stewardship: Where to go from here?

Kayley D McCubbin1, Herman W Barkema1, Amreen Babujee1

  • 1Department of Production Animal Health (McCubbin, Barkema), Department of Ecosystem and Public Health (Checkley), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; Antimicrobial Resistance - One Health Consortium, Calgary, Alberta (McCubbin, Barkema, Babujee, Checkley, Anholt, Larose, Saxinger, Otto); One Health at UCalgary, Calgary, Alberta (McCubbin, Barkema, Checkley, Anholt, Larose, Otto); HEAT-AMR (Human-Environment-Animal Transdisciplinary AMR) Research Group, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Babujee, Otto); Alberta Veterinary Medical Association, Edmonton, Alberta (Forseille, Naum, Buote, Dalton); Government of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Lehman, Morris, Blue); College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Smilski); Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan (Wilkins); Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger); Thematic Area Lead, Healthy Environments, Centre for Health Communities, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Otto).

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