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Swedes use less antibiotics comparatively as anti-biotic resistance increases in the European area

Friday, 16 November 2012
The amount of antibiotic used in Sweden has been accounted to be among the lowest in Europe according to new statistics from the European disease control ECDC.

According to the ECDC antibiotic resistance still remains a major European and global public health problem and is, for a large part, driven by misuse of antibiotics.

Therefore in its new data release, Greece consumed the most antibiotics in 2010. During this year almost about 40 days per daily doses of antibiotics here used per thousand of Greeks inhabitants. For Sweden that was, just 15

The data also show that Greece , along with countries such as Romania, Italy, Portugal and Hungary, are worst affected by resistant bacteria, while the presence of these bacteria in Sweden and Norway are still relatively small.

On the whole, ECDC stresses that over the last four years there has been a significant increasing trend of combined resistance to multiple antibiotics in both Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli in more than one-third of the EU/EEA countries.

During last year 64 tons of antibiotics were used in humans and twelve tons of it was used on animals in Sweden.
By Scancomarl.com Team
Link to the ECDC report and data set