Objective Resistance to antibiotics is the major cause of treatment failure of Helicobacter
pylori infection. A study was conducted to assess prospectively the antibacterial resistance …

Background Resistance to antibiotics is a major public-health problem, and studies that link
antibiotic use and resistance have shown an association but not a causal effect. We used the …

Background Data on more than a decade of outpatient quinolone use were collected from
33 European countries within the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC…

Background Antivirals are infrequently prescribed in European primary care for influenza-like
illness, mostly because of perceived ineffectiveness in real world primary care and …

In the last decade we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the proportion and absolute
number of bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple antibacterial agents. Multidrug-resistant …

Background High-volume prescribing of antibiotics in primary care is a major driver of
antibiotic resistance. Education of physicians and patients can lower prescribing levels, but it …

Background: The ESAC project, granted by DG SANCO of the European Commission, is an
international network of surveillance systems, aiming to collect comparable and reliable data …

Objective Our aim was to prospectively assess the antibiotic resistance rates in Helicobacter
pylori strains in Europe in 2018 and to study the link between antibiotic consumption in the …

The European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) project collects data on
antibacterial use in Europe, applying the Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical classification system …

Background Lower-respiratory-tract infection is one of the most common acute illnesses
managed in primary care. Few placebo-controlled studies of antibiotics have been done, and …