11 AMR and the environment in your work

You should now have a better understanding of the role of the environment in AMR and have a flavour of the complexity of environmental monitoring. Before you finish this course you should complete this final activity, which will help you to consolidate what you have learned.

Activity 10: AMR in the environment in your work

Timing: Allow 45 minutes

Part 1

Revisit Figure 4 (repeated below), which you first met at the beginning of this course. You should now be able to add to your work in Activity 3 and identify many more transmission routes.

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Figure 4 (repeated) The three linked One Health domains. One possible transmission pathway between the environmental domain (drinking water) and the animal domain is highlighted.
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Three circles showing AMR emergence in animals, humans and the environment. Examples of AMR emergence in the environment include agricultural fields/products, drinking water (which has a transmission route linked to animals), water for recreation, water for household use, floods and waterways. Examples of AMR emergence in animals include manure, run-off from farms and slaughterhouse/wet markets waste. Examples of AMR emergence in humans include sewage, hospitals and antibiotic production facilities.

Figure 4 (repeated) The three linked One Health domains. One possible transmission pathway between the environmental domain (drinking ...

Discussion

Some of the routes that you may have identified are shown on Figure 13.

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Figure 13 Interactions between the human, animal and environmental domains in the field of AMR.
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Three circles showing AMR emergence in animals, humans and the environment. There are several arrows added to indicate transmission routes. Examples of AMR emergence in the environment include agricultural fields/products, drinking water (which has transmission route linked to animals and humans), water for recreation (which has a transmission route linked to humans), water for household use (which has a transmission route linked to humans), floods (which has transmission routes linked to animals and humans), and waterways. Examples of AMR emergence in animals include manure (which has a transmission route linked to agricultural fields/products), run-off from farms (which has a transmission route linked to waterways) and slaughterhouse/wet markets waste (which has a transmission route linked to waterways). Examples of AMR emergence in humans include sewage (which has transmission routes linked to agricultural fields/products and waterways), hospitals (which has a transmission route linked to waterways) and antibiotic production facilities (which has a transmission route linked to waterways).

Figure 13 Interactions between the human, animal and environmental domains in the field of AMR.
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