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Table 6 Comparisons of trends in acquired non-susceptibility in Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae

From: Trends in antimicrobial resistance and empiric antibiotic therapy of bloodstream infections at a general hospital in Mid-Norway: a prospective observational study

Microbe

Type of non-susceptibility

Surveillance Area

Trends in proportions of non-susceptibility (Time period)

E. coli

Gentamicin non-susceptibility

Levanger Hospital

0.5% (2002–05)

3.3% (2010–13)

Iceland

2.9% (2010)

4.1% (2013)

Norway

0.6% (2003)

7.7% (2014)

EU/EEA

5.2% (2002)

9.9% (2013)

Bulgaria

15.8% (2003)

32.1% (2013)

E. coli

Resistance to 3rd generation cephalosporins

Levanger Hospital

0 (2002–05)

1.7% (2010–13)

Norway

1.5% (2008)

5.8% (2014)

EU/EEA

2.0% (2002)

12.6% (2013)

Bulgaria

24.8% (2010)

39.6% (2013)

S. aureus

MRSA

Levanger Hospital

0 (2002–05)

1.0% (2010–13)

Norway

0.3% (2002)

0.8% (2014)

EU/EEA

25.6% (2007)

18.0% (2013)

Malta

52.0% (2007)

51.8% (2013)

Romania

39.1% (2010)

64.5% (2013)

S. pneumoniae

PNSP

Levanger Hospital

0 (2002–05)

3.0% (2010–13)

Netherlands

2.0% (2010)

1.1% (2013)

Norway

0.9% (2002)

5.5% (2014)

Cyprus

41.7% (2010)

40.0% (2013)

  1. MRSA, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; PNSP, penicillin non-susceptible pneumococci
  2. Proportions of non-susceptibility from the current study (Levanger Hospital) are compared with data from Norway (the national surveillance system [8, 30], the European Union/the European Economic Area (EU/EEA), and with countries which have extraordinary low or high proportions of non-susceptibility [7, 24, 25]