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EU REFERENCE LABORATORY – ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

MONITORING REPORTS

As WHO Collaborating Centre and EU Reference Laboratory, we have experienced that it can be difficult to locate national surveillance and zoonosis reports on the Internet. Therefore, to facilitate an easy pathway of dissemination of the data, we here provide links to a number of reports. Supplemental infomation may be sent to the webmaster.
  
Directive 2003/99/EC states that Member States (MS) shall collect relevant and comparable data in order to identify and characterise hazards, to assess exposures and to characterise risks related to zoononoses and zoonotic agents. Additionally, MS shall ensure that monitoring provides comparable data on the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic agents and, in so far as they present a threat to public health, other agents.

A manual for reporting on zoonoses, zoonotic agents, antimicrobial resistance and food-borne outbreaks is available from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (Report of the Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection - Manual for Reporting on Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents, Antimicrobial Resistance and Food-borne Outbreaks in the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and on some other pathogenic microbiological agents for information derived from the reporting year 2006, The EFSA Journal (2007), 100, 1-86 (see http://www.efsa.europa.eu/))
 
Links to zoonoses reports can be found here
 
Below you find links to monitoring reports of some of the Member States and other countries/regions.

 
 
Link to the Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics covering Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, United States Of America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela (full report in Spanish)
 
 
Link to the Australian surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from livestock: here
 
 
Link to the Bulgarian monitoring information: BulSTAR
 
 
Link to Canadian monitoring reports: CIPARS
 
 
 
Link to the Danish monitoring reports: http://www.danmap.org/
 
See also the animated presentation King Harold and how the Bugs Lost Their Bite
 
 
Link to information on the Finnish monitoring programme: FINRES-Vet
 
 
Link to the French monitoring reports: FARM and RESAPATH
 
 
Link to the Dutch monitoring reports: MARAN
 
 
Link to documents on antibiotic resistance and sales in New Zealand: here 
 
 
Link to the Norwegian monitoring reports: Norm Norm-Vet Report
 
 
Link to Russian monitoring information: here
 
 
Link to the Spanish antimicrobial resistance surveillance network: VAV reports
 
 
Link to the Swedish monitoring reports: SVARM reports
 
 
Link to the Thai monitoring information: NARST
 
 
Link to annual reports on antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella: click here
The annual report on antimicrobial resistance in Veterinary Bacteria - the VLA Antimicrobial Sensitivity Report:
 Annual report on antimicrobial resistance in Veterinary Bacteria - the VLA Antimicrobial Sensitivity Report 2003
 
The joint medical and veterinary report:
 Overview of antimicrobial usage and bacterial resistance in selected human and animal pathogens in the UK: 2004
 
Medical reports on antimicrobial susceptibility from the Health Protection Agency for 2004 and 2005 include a chapter of veterinary susceptibility data and these are available here
  
  
Link to the NARMS monitoring reports