Bacterial resistance to antibiotics in France : a public health priority

H Aubry Damon; J Carlet; P Courvalin; J C Desenclos; J Drucker; D Guillemot; V Jarlier; B Régnier; B Schlemmer

doi:10.2807/esm.05.12.00019-en

Surveillance report Open Access

Like 0

This item has no PDF Download

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics in France : a public health priority
H Aubry Damon¹ , J Carlet² , P Courvalin³ , J C Desenclos¹ , J Drucker¹ , D Guillemot⁴ , V Jarlier⁵ , B Régnier⁶ , B Schlemmer⁷
View Affiliations Hide Affiliations

Affiliations: ¹ Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Département des Maladies Infectieuses, Saint-Maurice, France ² Service de réanimation polyvalente, Hôpital St Joseph, Paris, France ³ Centre National de Référence des mécanismes de résistance, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France ⁴ INSERM unité 21, Villejuif, France ⁵ Laboratoire de Bactériologie et Hygiène, groupe hospitalier Pitié Salpétrière, Paris, France ⁶ Service de réanimation des maladies infectieuses, groupe hospitalier Bîchat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France ⁷ Service de réanimation médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint-Louis, Paris, France

Correspondence:
View Citation Hide Citation

Citation style for this article: Aubry Damon H, Carlet J, Courvalin P, Desenclos J C, Drucker J, Guillemot D, Jarlier V, Régnier B, Schlemmer B. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics in France : a public health priority. Euro Surveill. 2000;5(12):pii=19. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.05.12.00019-en

Abstract

For a few years, France has been faced to a rapid spread of anti-microbial resistance in hospitals and in general practice despite the many recommendations issued to solve this problem. In 1999, the Institut de Veille Sanitaire conducted a collective expe