Professional paper

Antibiotic resistance control in Croatia

Arjana Tambić-Andrašević ; Klinika za infektivne bolesti "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The loss of antibiotics jeopardizes the progress in many fields of medicine. Therefore the European Union expects every member country to organize the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial consumption, education on rational antibiotic use for health professionals and citizens and to have a governmental Intersectoral coordinating mechanism (ICM) that will coordinate all the activities related to antibiotic resistance control. Antibiotic resistance surveillance in Croatia started with the foundation of the Croatian Committee for Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance at the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1996. Croatia readily joined the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS) and the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) and in 2006 the Croatian ICM (Interdisciplinarna sekcija za kontrolu rezistencije na antibiotike, ISKRA) was founded at the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Croatia belongs to a group of European countries with high antibiotic consumption and consequently high resistance rates for many antibiotics.

Keywords

antibiotics; resistance; organization

Hrčak ID:

50619

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/50619

Publication date:

4.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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