LE RESAPATH : ANALYSE CRITIQUE ET PROPOSITIONS D'AMELIORATION

SUMMARY : A national veterinary surveillance network named Resapath monitors resistance to antimicrobial agents in the main pathogenic bacteria isolated from diseased cattle, swine and poultry in France. The aims of Resapath network are the detection of antimicrobial resistance emergence and the monitoring of its evolution over time and space. With the aim of constantly improving the network, a detailed description of its organisation and production has been elaborated, based mainly on the process described by B. Dufour and P. Hendrikx (Dufour and Hendrickx, 2005). If not consisting in a true network assessment, this work allowed for identification of the limits of data interpretation and for new proposals aiming at improvement of the network functioning.