Acknowledgements

This free course was collaboratively written by Joanna McKenzie and Dawn Harmon, and reviewed by Priya Khanna, Claire Gordon, Natalie Moyen and Hilary MacQueen. The course was reviewed and updated by Cyril Buhler, Clare Sansom and Rachel McMullan in 2025.

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Course image: © Sudowoodo/iStock/Getty Images Plus.

Figure 1: adapted from Mott McDonald.

Figure 2: hatching broiler chicks, © chayakorn lotongkum/iStock/Getty Images Plus; broiler chicken farm, © davit85/iStock/Getty Images Plus; chicken being prepared in a household, GSDesign; hospital, Alexey Hulsov/Pixabay.

Figure 3: Mott McDonald.

Section 5.1: © junpinzon/iStock/Getty Images Plus.

Section 5.4: © Flatfeet/Shutterstock.

Section 5.5: RitaE/Pixabay.

Section 5.6: Ulrike Leone/Pixabay.

Section 5.7: © Weerayuth Kanchanacharoen/123RF.

Section 9.1: Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne Bacteria: Application of a One Health Approach. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Section 9.1.1: World Health Organization. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en).

Section 9.2: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2019, Monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from healthy food animals intended for consumption, http://www.fao.org/ 3/ ca6897en/ CA6897EN.pdf. Reproduced with permission. Image: © FAO/Jim Caro.

Section 9.3: World Organisation for Animal Health.

Section 9.4: Fleming Fund.

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