"Antibiotic use and resistance in animals in Belgium in 2024"
June, 20th, 2025, 9 am - 12.30 am
Pacheco Center - Avenue Pacheco 13 – 1000 Brussels
The joint communication moment of the AMCRA, FAVV, FAGG, FPS Public Health and Sciensano on the results of antibiotic use and resistance in animals has taken place on Friday morning 20 June 2025.
This year, the information event has been organised exclusively as a physical meeting in Brussels.
Pleas find here the press release on antibiotic use and resistance results in 2024.
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PRESENTATIONS
tIn the morning the results of antibiotic sales and use rates in animals in Belgium in 2024 were presented. Sales data were presented in the light of the Vision 2024 reduction targets. All antibiotic sales and use data are published in the BelVet-SAC report 2024.
Click on the pictures to open the presentations.
For the first time, antibiotic resistance data from diseased dogs, cats and horses were presented during the annual communication moment.
Explanations were then also given about results on antibiotic resistance collected from commensal indicator bacteria (Gram-negative indicator E. coli and Gram-positive indicator Enterococcus spp.) isolated from food-producing animals, followed by.antibiotic resistance results in bacteria from diseased animals.
PROGRAM
Registration from 9am - presentations are in English
Posters with selected scientific communications will be displayed on site.
9h30 Welcome words
9h35 Keynote presentation: Host ecological specialisation by Staphylococcus aureus (Prof. J. Ross Fitzgerald, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh).
10h20 Vision 2024: did we reach the targets? Sales and use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine at national and at sector level (Wannes Vanderhaeghen, AMCRA)
10h50 Questions/Answers
11h Coffee break
11h20 AMR monitoring of E. coli and enterococci indicator bacteria isolated from healthy food-producing animals in Belgium: what is the current situation? (Cristina Garcia-Graells and Cécile Boland, Sciensano)
11h40 Antibiotic resistance in the picture: trends in cattle, pigs and poultry production in Belgium (Nadine Botteldoorn, DGZ-MCC and ARSIA)
12h The evolution of antimicrobial resistance in dogs, cats and horses (Alisha Milis – lab at the river AML Antwerp)
12h20 Questions/Answers
12h30 Closing remarks
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