Summary of the latest data on antibiotic consumption in EU: 2012

The data from 2010 presented in this section were collected by the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net). Since 1 July 2011, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) coordinates ESAC-Net, which was formerly coordinated by the University of Antwerp, Belgium, under the name European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) project, and funded by ECDC. This is the first time that data on antibiotic consumption are published by ESAC-Net and ECDC. ESAC-Net collects and analyses data on antibiotic consumption from EU/EAA countries, both in the community and in the hospital sector.