Good day. Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening

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So joining Brian and myself today in our virtual studio is Associate Professor Rosanne Jepson,

one of our internal medicine, part of our internal medicine team here at the Royal Vet College.

When I say here, we're probably not actually in the Royal Vet College, but anyway, here at the Royal Vet College. So thank you, Roseanne, for joining us. Hi, Dom. Yes. Thanks very much for the

invitation. And although we could talk about many things, and we did before we started recording

this, what we want to talk about in this podcast is about antimicrobial awareness week.

So, so Brousanne, could I ask, when is antimicrobial awareness week?

Predominantly, when is that week?

And also, what is it about?

So antimicrobial awareness week is something that's been running actually for several years now,

and it's a worldwide initiative organised through the World Health Organisation. This year,

it's running from the 18th to the 24th of November, so a couple of weeks time. And it's an opportunity

for us to really take stock and to just think about

antimicrobial use, try to raise awareness about how we're using antibiotics. And this year,

it's particularly important because they're really focusing on having a one health approach. So whilst perhaps previously there's been a well-recognised focus on the use of antibiotics

and concerns relating to antimicrobial resistance, obviously in humans,

we have to recognise that what we do as veterinary surgeons as well is also very important.

And that includes obviously food animal health, but from our perspective, you know, also the antibiotics and antimicrobial stewardship relating to companion animals.

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