Antibiotic Resistance

All authorities, SMI included, and organisations with responsibility to act upon the problem with antibiotic resistance, were 1995 formed into a network named STRAMA. The STRAMA secretariat is located at SMI.

The main objective of the network is to preserve antibiotics as effective treatments. A National Action Plan Against Resistance (SPAR) has been worked out. SMI and its antibiotic resistance group are coordinating the national surveillance of antibiotic resistance.

Posters and presentations:

Enterobacteriaceae producing extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL): Report on twelve months notifications according to the Swedish communicable disease act

Activities

• Antibiotic Resistance
• Centre for Microbiological Preparedness
• Epidemiological Surveillance and Analysis
• Experimental Biomedicine – Important Research with Concern for the Animals
• Information, Education and Training
• Methods for Advanced Disease Tracing
• Special diagnostics
• The Swedish vaccination program