According to the latest report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), bacteria from humans and animals continue to show resistance to antimicrobials.
The report highlights some emerging issues and confirms antimicrobial resistance as one of the biggest threats to public health, mainly by reducing the effectiveness of treatment options.
Among the new findings, based on data from 2016, are detection of resistance to carbapenems in poultry, an antibiotic which is not authorised for use in animals, and of ESBL-producing Salmonella Kentucky with high resistance to ciprofloxacin in humans, which was reported for the first time in four countries.