Towards a global antibiotic resistance surveillance system: a primer for a roadmap.

ABSTRACT: The need for global data about the scale of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in a geographical explicit and timely manner has been identified by many stakeholders, including the World Health Organization. This primer should help defining the objectives, scale, scope, and structure of possible future efforts. Stakeholders and their expected information demands were identified to generate an inventory of surveillance objectives. For simplification, an original approach was chosen to bundle sets of objectives that represent common demands and can be addressed by common subject areas, which fall into three areas. Subject area I addresses clinical demands and focuses on patients; subject area II addresses public health demands by focusing on meta-populations; subject area III addresses infection con

SUBMITTER: Grundmann H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034565 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature