Global incidence in hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics: An analysis of point prevalence surveys from 99 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-associated infections (HAIs) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. Many HAIs are caused by drug-resistant bacterial pathogens, but there are major gaps in our understanding of the number of hospital-associated drug-resistant infections (HARIs) worldwide. As such, we estimated trends in prevalence of HARIs caused by high priority pathogens (Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter spp., Klebsiella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter spp., and Pseudomonas spp.) in 195 countries.

Methods and findings

Resistance prevalence estimates were extracted from 474-point prevalence surveys (PPS) from 99 countries published between 2010 and 2020 coupled with country-level estimates of hospitalization rates and length of stay. Prevalence estim

SUBMITTER: Balasubramanian R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10263350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature