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Decrease in community antibiotic consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic, EU/EEA, 2020
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsLiselotte Diaz Högbergliselotte.diaz-hogberg ecdc.europa.eu
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ESAC-Net study group participants: Reinhild STRAUSS, Boudewijn CATRY, Ivan IVANOV, Marina PAYERL-PAL, Isavella KYRIAKIDOU, Berit MÜLLER-PEBODY, Janne SEPP, Emmi SARVIKIVI, Philippe CAVALIÉ, Birgitta SCHWEICKERT, Flora KONTOPIDOU, María MATUZ, Anna Margrét HALLDÓRSDÓTTIR, Ajay OZA, Filomena FORTINGUERRA, Ieva RUTKOVSKA, Rolanda VALINTELIENĖ, Stephanie SALEH, Peter ZARB, Stephanie NATSCH, Hege Salvesen BLIX, Anna OLCZAK-PIEŃKOWSKA, Ana SILVA, Gabriel Adrian POPESCU, Tomáš TESAŘ, Maja SUBELJ, Antonio LÓPEZ, Ragda OBEIDView Citation Hide Citation
Citation style for this article: . Decrease in community antibiotic consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic, EU/EEA, 2020. Euro Surveill. 2021;26(46):pii=2101020. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.46.2101020 Received: 29 Oct 2021; Accepted: 16 Nov 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.
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