Swiss Antibiotic Resistance Trends in Wastewater and Clinical Data, 2021-2024

772 wastewater samples from six Swiss treatment plants were analyzed for resistant bacteria between 2021 and 2024. The dataset compares these results with national clinical resistance and antibiotic consumption data from the Swiss Center for Antibiotic Resistance (ANRESIS). Sheena Conforti published the integrated analyses on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Correlating long-term trends in antibiotic-resistant bacteria between wastewater and clinical settings based on the described resistance percentages for ESBL-E. coli, VRE, and CR-E. coli.
• Analyzing the relationship between antibiotic consumption data and resistance percentages in wastewater for specific antibiotic classes mentioned in the description.
• Modeling the temporal dynamics of specific resistant bacteria, such as ESBL-E. coli and VRE, which showed similar rising trends in both data sources.
• Investigating lead-lag relationships between community-level wastewater signals and clinical resistance data over the multi-year study period.

Strengths

• Includes 772 analyzed wastewater samples collected over a 3-year period (2021-2024).
• Integrates three data streams: wastewater monitoring, clinical resistance data, and antibiotic consumption.
• Provides specific mean resistance percentages with standard deviations (e.g., 2.2 ± 0.8 for ESBL-E. coli in wastewater).
• Data covers six distinct wastewater treatment plants across Switzerland.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small in scale at 30.9 KB, indicating a limited scope of raw or summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Sheena Conforti. Data likely originates from the Swiss Center for Antibiotic Resistance (ANRESIS) national surveillance network.

Collection Method

Wastewater samples were analyzed for specific bacteria; clinical and consumption data were obtained from the national surveillance network.

Time Range

2021 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 19:04:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Switzerland