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Table 2.1 Various surveillance systems (National and Regional) of Europe
National surveillance systems
Austria
National Reference Center for Nosocomial Infections and Antimicrobial
Resistance (NRZ)
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Surveillance Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance (BulSTAR)
Belgium
The Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISSP)
Croatia
Croatian Institute of Public Health (CIPH)
Croatia
Intersectoral Coordination Mechanism for the Control of Antimicrobial
Resistance (ISKRA)
Czech
Republic
National Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
Cyprus
National antimicrobial resistance surveillance system
Denmark
Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research
Programme (DANMAP)
France
The National Observatory of the Epidemiology of Bacterial Resistance
Antibiotics (ONERBA)
Finland
Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FIRE)
Germany
Hospital surveillance system for nosocomial infections (KISS)
Germany
Monitoring antibiotic resistance in Niedersachsen (ARMIN)
Germany
Surveillance of antibiotic use and bacterial resistance in intensive care units
(SARI)
Germany
Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance (ARS)
Greece
Greek System for the Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (GSSAR)
Ireland
Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC)
Hungary
National Nosocomial Surveillance System (NNSR)
Italy
Regional surveillance system for intensive care units (SITIER)
Italy
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance - National Institute of Health (AR-ISS)
Italy
Prospective surveillance of nosocomial infections in intensive care units
(SPIN-UTI)
Italy
National surveillance systems for post surgical infections (SNICh)
Lithuania
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance - Institute of Vilnius
Norway
Norwegian surveillance system: healthcare associated infections module for
surgical site infections; antimicrobial drug resistance module; communicable
diseases (FHI)
Netherlands Infectious Disease Surveillance and Information System for Antibiotic
Resistance (ISIS-AR)
Portugal
Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Programme in Portugal (ARSIP)
Romania
Sentinel surveillance system of nosocomial infections and antimicrobial
resistance
Spain
EstudioNacional de Vigilancia de Infección Nososcomial en Servicios de
MedicinaIntensiva (ENVIN-UCI)
Slovakia
Slovak National Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (SNARS)
Sweden
Swedish Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (Svebar)
Sweden
Annual resistance monitoring and quality control programme (ResNet)
Switzerland CA-MRSA surveillance system (CA-MRSA)
Switzerland Swiss Centre for Antibiotic Resistance (ANRESIS)
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