Antibiotic resistance in Türkiye: what has been done and what needs to be done urgently?

Özlem Alhan; Hasan Selçuk Özger; Onur Karatuna; Özlem Kurt Azap; Bahar Madran; Şiran Keske; Güle Çınar; İrem Akdemir; Önder Ergönül

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.019

Antibiotic resistance in Türkiye: what has been done and what needs to be done urgently?

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2025 Nov;31(11):1771-1774. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.019. Epub 2025 May 27.

Authors

Özlem Alhan¹, Hasan Selçuk Özger², Onur Karatuna³, Özlem Kurt Azap⁴, Bahar Madran⁵, Şiran Keske², Güle Çınar⁶, İrem Akdemir⁶, Önder Ergönül²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Koç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Türkiye; Koç University İşbank Center for Infectious Diseases (KUISCID), İstanbul, Türkiye. Electronic address: oalhan@kuh.ku.edu.tr.
² Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Koç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Türkiye; Koç University İşbank Center for Infectious Diseases (KUISCID), İstanbul, Türkiye.
³ The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) Development Laboratory, Clinical Microbiology, Central Hospital, Växjö, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye.
⁵ Koç University İşbank Center for Infectious Diseases (KUISCID), İstanbul, Türkiye; Department of Public Health, Koç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Türkiye.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye.

PMID: 40441352
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.019

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Keywords: Antibiotic consumption; Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial stewardship program; Community-acquired infections; Healthcare-associated infections.