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The Antibiotic Reference Laboratory at ESR is responsible for the
national surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among human
pathogens. Data from various surveillance systems and sources are used
to compile national antimicrobial resistance data:
- antimicrobial susceptibility data generated from routine
diagnostic susceptibility testing in hospital and community
laboratories are collected and analysed
- the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial isolates referred
to ESR for further investigation, such as epidemiological typing, is
monitored
- periodic point-prevalence surveys of antimicrobial susceptibility
among a specific organism using a purpose-collected sample of isolates
from throughout the country are conducted.
- important
resistant bacteria, for example VRE and VISA,
are targeted for enhanced surveillance, and laboratories are requested
to refer all isolates of these resistant organisms to ESR.
Most of the data from this surveillance up until the end of 2001 were
published in the former ESR publication LabLink. Data from 2002 will be
routinely published on this website.
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