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Decrease in community antibiotic consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic, EU/EEA, 2020

Authors :
Högberg, Liselotte Diaz
Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera
Pereira, Cátia
Weist, Klaus
Monnet, Dominique L
STRAUSS, Reinhild
CATRY, Boudewijn
IVANOV, Ivan
PAYERL-PAL, Marina
KYRIAKIDOU, Isavella
MÜLLER-PEBODY, Berit
SEPP, Janne
SARVIKIVI, Emmi
CAVALIÉ, Philippe
SCHWEICKERT, Birgitta
KONTOPIDOU, Flora
MATUZ, María
HALLDÓRSDÓTTIR, Anna Margrét
OZA, Ajay
FORTINGUERRA, Filomena
RUTKOVSKA, Ieva
VALINTELIENĖ, Rolanda
SALEH, Stephanie
ZARB, Peter
NATSCH, Stephanie
BLIX, Hege Salvesen
OLCZAK-PIEŃKOWSKA, Anna
SILVA, Ana
POPESCU, Gabriel Adrian
TESAŘ, Tomáš
SUBELJ, Maja
LÓPEZ, Antonio
OBEID, Ragda
Source :
Eurosurveillance, Volume 26, Issue 46
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We present a European Union/European Economic Area-wide overview of the changes in consumption of antibacterials for systemic use (ATC J01) in the community between 2019 and 2020 as reported to the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network. Overall antibiotic consumption decreased by 18.3% between 2019 and 2020, the largest annual decrease in the network's two-decade history. We observed a strong association between the level of community antibiotic consumption in 2019 and the size of the decrease between 2019 and 2020.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15607917
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Eurosurveillance, Volume 26, Issue 46
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1a3d0bd28557a16358b65351f8491775
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.46.2101020