ECDC publishes its first data on antimicrobial consumption in Europe

摘要

On Monday 4 March 2013, the European Centre forDisease Prevention and Control (ECDC), launched a newinteractive database and published its first report onsurveillance of antimicrobial consumption in Europe.ECDC collects data on antimicrobial consumption from29 European Union (EU) and European Economic Area(EEA) countries through the European Surveillance ofAntimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net), whichis a Europe-wide network of national surveillance sys-tems. The report presents data for 2010 from the com-munity (primary care) and the hospital sector.