The National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education and five partner institutions have received a $1.5 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine to support a project designed to improve antibiotic stewardship by prioritizing the most significant diseases in food animal production and identifying alternative treatment strategies.
The funding will support research using a multi-pronged, standardized methodology to identify diseases that drive the most use of antibiotics in three major livestock…
