Case-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance with full susceptibility profiles.

ABSTRACT: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is essential for clinical decision-making and for public health authorities to monitor patterns in resistance and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and control measures. Existing AMR surveillance is typically based on reports from hospital laboratories and public health laboratories, comprising reports of pathogen frequencies and resistance frequencies among each species detected. Here we propose an improved framework for AMR surveillance, in which the unit of surveillance is patients with specific conditions, rather than biological samples of a particular type. In this 'case-based' surveillance, denominators as well as numerators will be clearly defined with clinical relevance and more comparable at the local, national and internati

SUBMITTER: Ryu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7134534 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature