With many infectious diseases, the health of humans and animals is very closely interwoven. Animals and people are often infected by the same pathogens, treated with the same antibiotics and thus have a mutual influence on the problems of resistance.

With the German Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy (DART), the German Federal Government presented a concept in 2008, which was subsequently implemented, aimed at reducing the further development and spread of antibiotic resistance. DART contains a number of measures for recognising, averting, and combatting antibiotic resistance in Germany. DART 2020 continues the German Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy.