Table 1.
Prioritization of antimicrobial classes according to the WHO list of Critically Important Antimicrobials for human medicine.
Table 2.
Total sales volumes of veterinary antimicrobials in Germany.
Fig 1.
Sales volumes of antimicrobial classes prioritized according to their medical importance for humans (WHO CIA list).
Sales volumes are expressed in tons [t] of active ingredient. Triangles: Important Antimicrobials (IA), squares: Highly Important Antimicrobials (HIA), circles: Critically Important Antimicrobials (CIA). Dashed line: CIA of High Priority (CIA subcategory), dotted line: CIA of Highest Priority (CIA subcategory).
Table 3.
Changes in sales volumes of antimicrobial classes prioritized according to their medical importance for humans (WHO CIA list).
Fig 2.
Sales volumes of 16 antimicrobial classes according to the WHO classification scheme.
Semilogarithmic graph on sales volumes expressed in tons [t] of active ingredient. Bars from left to right indicate the years from 2011 to 2018. AMC: aminocyclitols, AMG: aminoglycosides, AMP: amphenicols, CEP1: cephalosporins of the 1st generation, CEP3: cephalosporins of the 3rd generation, CEP4: cephalosporins of the 4th generation, LCS: lincosamides, MCL: macrolides, PEN AM: aminopenicillins, PEN AS: antistaphylococcal penicillins, PEN NS: narrow spectrum penicillins, PLM: pleuromutilins, PMY: polymyxins, QUI: quinolones, SUL DRI: sulfonamides and dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors, TET: tetracyclines.
Table 4.
Sales volumes of Critically Important Antimicrobials of Highest Priority.
Fig 3.
Sales volumes of tetracyclines.
Sales volumes are expressed in tons [t] of active ingredient. Squares: tetracycline, triangles: chlortetracycline, circles: doxycycline, dashes: oxytetracycline.