På svenskaSWEDRES 2007
A Report on Swedish Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance in Human Medicine, published by Strama and The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control. Announced June 10th 2008.
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The report shows that the use of antibiotics in Sweden has increased during the last three years. The increase was most pronounced among children. More than one third (35%) of the children, 0-6 years old, received at least one course of antibiotics during 2007, compared to an average of 25% within the whole population. The use of antibiotics differs a lot between the 21 counties. Penicillin V and tetracyclines were the most prescribed antibiotics in community care.
A total of 1128 cases of MRSA were notified in 2007, a 7% increase compared to 2006. Enterobacterioaceae producing ESBL were made notifiable by the laboratories from February 2007. ESBL-resistance is now twice as commonly reported as MRSA, a total of 2099 persons were notified during the period. Most ESBL were found in urine samples (70%) and the most commonly reported species was E. coli (77%). Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) are still rare in Sweden but due to an ongoing outbreak of E. faecium (van-B genotype) 53 cases of VRE were notified during 2007, the highest number since the mandatory notifications begun.
