Table 1

Data on antimicrobial susceptibility submitted from the participating laboratories in the different European countries during a three year period.
Bacterial species		A. pleuropneumoniae			S. suis			E. coli (Infections)			E. coli (Indicator)			Total

Year		2002	2003	2004	2002	2003	2004	2002	2003	2004	2002	2003	2004	2002	2003	2004

Country and number of bacterial isolates	A	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	217	-	-	217
	B	-	-	-	-	-	-	61	100	137	146	-	-	207	100	137
	DK	480	514	441	-	557	-	111	77	177	293	317	208	884	1,465	826
	E^b	54	46	43	-	34	53	365	352	313	-	-	-	419	432	409
	F^a	118–157	1271–88	99–130	92–210	68–305	72–196	862–1,442	784–1,364	758–1 412	101	101	100	1,055–1,753	1,080–1,958	1,029–1,838
	FIN	-	-	-	-	-	-	141	65	61	-	-	391	141	65	452
	I	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	103	166	-	103	166
	LV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	-	-	-	31	-
	NL	-	190	-	-	762	-	311	308	-	149	155	296	460	1,415	296
	N	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	-	45	187	-	125	226	-	170
	PL	32	-	-	150	151	111	-	-	-	-	-	355	182	151	466
	P	-	-	-	-	-	24	33	45	44	-	-	-	33	45	68
	ES	-	-	-	-	-	-	77	154	169	289	285	183	366	439	352
	S	-	-	-	-	-	-	340	45	386	-	303	-	-	348	386
	CH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	92	47	-	-	-	-	92	47

Total no. of isolates	685–723	877–938	583–614	242–360	1,572–1,809	260–384	2,340–2,920	2,053–2,633	2,137–2,791	1,17	1,26	2,04

-: No data available, ^aMulticenter study. The isolates were tested for different panels of antimicrobial agents in the different centers. ^b: Isolates from England included also Wales and have been collected by The Veterinary Laboratory Agency. The remaining part of the United Kingdom has separate laboratories. A – Austria; B – Belgium, DK – Denmark, E – England including Wales; F – France; FIN – Finland; I – Italy; LV – Latvia; NL – The Netherlands; N – Norway; PL – Poland; P – Portugal; ES – Spain; S – Sweden; CH – Switzerland
Hendriksen et al. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008 50:19 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-19