Decrease in community antibiotic consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic, EU/EEA, 2020
Liselotte Diaz Högberg, Vera Vlahović–Palčevski, Cátia Fonseca do Nascimento Pereira, Klaus Weist, Dominique L. Monnet, ESAC-Net study group
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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European unionConsumption (sociology)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicAntibiotics2019-20 coronavirus outbreakEnvironmental healthSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)European communityMedicineBusinessVirologyInternational tradeBiologyOutbreakInternal medicineInfectious disease (medical specialty)MicrobiologySocial scienceDiseaseSociologyAntibiotic Use and ResistanceCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies