The major goal of the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (Dutch acronym is SWAB) is to contribute to the containment of the development of antimicrobial resistance and of the expanding costs of the use of antibiotics. This is achieved by optimizing the use of antibiotics by means of guideline development, education and antibiotic resistance surveillance.

News

• Thursday 30 June 2011 the 12th annual SWAB symposium will take place at Media Plaza, Utrecht.
  To the programme. 
  
• SWAB has published the new national guideline for the antibiotic treatment of sepsis (31 December 2010). To download the guideline click here.
• July 2010 SWAB published the NethMap 2010 report on antimicrobial use and resistance in The Netherlands. To download the NethMap reports click here.