Digital Infrastructure for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Surveillance: A CLSI and EUCAST-Based Model for Resource-Limited Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health threat, requiring effective antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and surveillance systems. At the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB) in Rwanda, a baseline Laboratory Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Testing Capacity (LAARC) identified critical gaps in the Laboratory Information System (LIS), including low capture rates for culture observation (60%) and AST data (25%), no standardization of AST panels (0%), and limited cumulative antibiogram generation (17%). Existing AMR surveillance platforms, such as the Information System for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance by the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Surveillance of Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents (WHONET),

SUBMITTER: Mbarushimana D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12823019 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature