SVA's

The National Veterinary Institute, SVA, is heavily involved in different aspects of reducing drug resistance, such as educating livestock producers and the public as well as surveilling the presence of resistant pathogens in animals and the environment. SVA is the reference laboratorium for AMR in animals and food in Sweden, and guides other laboratories in testing procedures and interpretation of results. In society, the consumption/use of antibiotics is the most important driver of AMR and this is followed on a continuous basis by SVA. In order to understand the underlying mechanisms of AMR research is conducted in, for instance, the areas of resistance mechanisms and resistance epidemiology, but also on the effectiveness of use of antibiotics in different disease conditions in animals. All activities are performed with a One Health approach, taking into account aspects from both the human, animal and environmental perspectives.