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Antibiotic Awareness Week, November 2011Rita Finley, Lynora Saxinger, Daniel ThirionTranscription: Marjolaine HébertRenéeRitawonderful collaborating relationship with other governmentagencies, and provincial, and academic, and industry levels.So this slide is just to acknowledge everyone that makes this programpossible and that provides information for us just to keep a goodsense of what is happening across the animal and human sectors, interms of Enteric disease and resistance.And if you need more information on CIPARS, we have our reportsavailable in both English and French at our phac website. And itincludes annual reports, short reports, and certain issue papers thatwe put out based on issues that we have identified as a public healthconcern among our surveillance system. And I don’t know if there’sanyone with any questions, or if I’ve run out of time.We, we’re a bit pressed for time, Rita, but there is one question about,how does Canada’s antimicrobial use compare to use in othercountries?That’s a really good question, and we are able to compare ourinformation with that of the European countries. I’m just gonna pullthat out for you in just a second. So, the European Surveillance andAntimicrobial Consumption puts out information, and I think they’rea year behind so I can speak to 2008 data that we have for Canada tothe European countries. So we’re very similar in levels ofconsumption with Finland and the Czech Republic. The ... I’m tryingto think. We have half the level of consumption that was estimated inGreece. Overall, in 2008 we ranked 14 th out of 31 European countriesthat were able to provide information. And this is in terms ofincreasing levels of consumption. We’re really low compared to thesecountries in terms of consumption of Macrolides, Lincosamides , andStreptogramins; similar for Quinolones. And we were 18 th for ourlevel of Tetracycline consumption and Penicillin consumption. So Ithink we’re, if we compare ourselves to the data that’s available forthe European countries, we’re kind of in the middle of the 31countries that provide information on an annual basis.And I just noticed today that there is a group now that’s gonna beposting data for the United States on levels of prescriptionsdispensed by pharmacies, so we’ll be connecting with them to try toget a sense of, how do we compare for the United States? LatinPUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY of CANADA//AGENCE DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE du CANADA 10