Analysis of isolate based data on antimicrobial resistance
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Introduction
Under the Directive 2003/99/EC, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is charged with coordinating the annual reporting of zoonoses, zoonotic agents, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union as well as analysing and summarising the data collected. Until the year 2010, data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals and food were submitted by the reporting countries and analysed by EFSA on an aggregated level (i.e. as numbers of isolates resistant to a given antimicrobial substance out of the total number of isolates tested). However, data at bacterial isolate level enable more in-depth analysis of resistance, including multi-resistance patterns of isolates and description of clonal spreading of resistant strains.
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