Reference | Agers_2013_JoofAnCh (10222) (Excluded)

Data on consumption were obtained from the VetStat database. In Denmark, all therapeutic drugs are prescription only and reporting to the VetStat database of medicines prescribed for animals has been mandatory since 2001.

For detection of ESC-producing E. coli, samples were collected from pigs at slaughter, pigs at farm level and Danish retail pork. Caecal samples were collected from pigs from February to November 2009 and in June 2010 before a voluntary ban on cephalosporins was enforced, and in two subsequent periods: July to November 2010 and February to November 2011. Five stool samples were collected in different pigsties (mainly with slaughter pigs) by veterinary control personnel during the regular control visits. The samples were mixed into one pooled sample. The farms were sampled once within the same year. Samples from Danish pork were randomly collected from retail stores and outlets in all regions of Denmark as part of the Danish integrated surveillance programme (DANMAP),

AST Method: None

Reference explicitly reports AST breakpoints: True

Reference reports using a MIC table: False