1 AMR/AMU surveillance in animals: main concepts

This section introduces surveillance and monitoring, and recapitulates the concepts introduced in the module Antimicrobial resistance in animals and other introductory modules relating to the types of data used for surveillance of AMR. We will also consider different types of surveillance systems.

After completing this section you will be able to:

• explain the importance of AMR, AMU and residues data when tackling the AMR challenge
• describe and identify the main types of surveillance systems.