Eurosurveillance - Volume 5, Issue 12, 01 December 2000

Recent data of the Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme (DANMAP) show that, in Denmark, resistance levels among Salmonella enterica are modest and that resistance in Escherichia coli isolates causing disease in anim

The Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe), a network founded in 1991, has established a standard routine susceptibility testing method that yields reliable and comparable results for both diagnostic and epidemiological purposes. Results

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