Minnesota Department of Health MN Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative Update Bulletin

 

Stewardship quiz? You betcha! (scroll down for answer)

Which early proponent of the human-animal health connection first used the term "one medicine"?

a. James Steele (1913-2013), American veterinarian and founder of the U.S. CDC's Veterinary Public Health Division
b. Calvin Schwabe (1927-2006), American veterinarian who authored "Veterinary Medicine and Human Health" in 1964
c. William Osler (1849-1919), Canadian physician who encouraged the practice of comparative anatomy
d. Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), German physician and pathologist who used the term "zoonosis" to describe a disease passed between humans and animals

Update from Your Minnesota Stewardship Collaborative

Celebrate the first annual One Health Day!

Today, November 3, 2016 is the first annual One Health Day, an international campaign coordinated by the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team and the One Health Platform Foundation. The goal of One Health Day is to bring attention around the world to the need for One Health interactions and for the world to ‘see them in action’. Health agencies, academic institutions, and clinical facilities globally are taking time to recognize this day and share the concept of One Health with their local communities and the world.

Minnesota agencies are proud to work together to enhance human, animal, and environmental health. Many of the threats to human health involve an animal and/or environmental source, including foodborne and waterborne diseases, deadly diseases like Ebola and anthrax, mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile Virus, and tick-borne diseases like Lyme. Similarly, humans are capable of bringing diseases like influenza to animal populations, and we frequently contaminate our natural environment with pharmaceutical or other household and industrial wastes.

Many of the benefits to human health are also associated with animals and the environment. We count on healthy animals and agricultural land to provide us with nutritious food. Our physical and mental health is enhanced through interactions with pets and by exercising and relaxing in our natural surroundings.

Follow @MNhealth, @CDC_NCEZID, @CDCgov, or just watch #OneHealthDay today to learn more about One Health activities and  materials. See CDC for more info on One Health. Click on the logo below to learn what is happening around the world to celebrate One Health Day!

Stay tuned for meeting announcements, including:

• Human Health Care Antibiotic Stewardship Conference (Winter 2017) 

News to Note

Study finds first-line, narrow-spectrum, antibiotics are used in only 50% of three common outpatient infections. Read more from CIDRAP.

• In a Letter to JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers report that 52% of patients with sinus infection, middle-ear infection, and pharyngitis received recommended first-line antibiotics such as penicillin, amoxicillin, and amoxicillin-clavulanate
• Patients that did not receive these first-line treatments were given macrolide, fluoroquinolone, or broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotics, which have a greater potential to drive antibiotic resistance and cause adverse patient effects
• Studies like these are essential to goal-setting in health care stewardship programs

Study sheds light on persistence of Clostridium difficile on hospital surfaces. Read abstract

• Hospital surfaces were tested for C. difficile by using PCR during and after an outbreak
• During the outbreak, 2.5 times more C. difficile DNA was recovered from surfaces, including bedrails and walls
• This study has implications for infection prevention measures and environmental cleaning of patient rooms and other areas where patients with C. difficile infection are located 

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy issues free supplement devoted to antifungal stewardship. Read more

• Available articles include the currently available treatments for fungal infections and an introduction to antifungal stewardship

Upcoming Events

National Institute for Animal Agriculture 2016 Antibiotics Symposium

• November 1-3, 2016 in Herndon, VA
• Learn more 

Get Smart About Antibiotics Week

• November 14–20, 2016
• Learn more

SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Workshop

• November 29-30, 2016 in San Diego, CA
• Learn more

Quiz Answer!

Correct Answer: b. Calvin Schwabe

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention One Health Office website, "Calvin Schwabe, DVM, ScD, MPH, made many important contributions to veterinary epidemiology over his career. He began his career studying zoonotic parasitic diseases and directed the World Health Organization's programs on hydatid disease and other parasitic diseases. In 1966, Dr. Schwabe became the founding chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Veterinary School at the University of California Davis. It was the first department of its kind at a veterinary school.

Dr. Schwabe's support for One Health was evident in his writings. In the 1964 edition of his monograph, he proposed that veterinary and human health professionals collaborate to combat zoonotic diseases. In his textbook, Veterinary Medicine and Human Health, Dr. Schwabe coined the term "One Medicine." The term emphasizes the similarities between human and veterinary medicine and the need for collaboration to effectively cure, prevent, and control illnesses that affect both humans and animals."

Learn more about the history of One Health from CDC.

 

Handy Links

Minnesota One Health Collaborative

CDC: Antimicrobial Resistance

CDDEP: Antibiotic Resistance

CIDRAP: Antimicrobial Stewardship

CDC: Antibiotic Stewardship

MPCA: Chemicals in Our Water

FDA: Antimicrobial Resistance

USDA: Antimicrobial Resistance

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