The Experience of Implementing a National Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat of global proportions, which has the potential to lead to approximately ten million deaths per year by 2050. Pressured by this wicked problem, in 2014, the World Health Organization launched a call for member states to share AMR data through the implementation of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS), to appropriately scale and monitor the general situation world-widely. In 2017, Brazil joined GLASS and, in 2018, started its own national antimicrobial surveillance program (BR-GLASS) to understand the impact of resistance in the country. We compiled data obtained from the complete routine of three hospitals' microbiology labs during the year of 2018. This pilot data sums up to 200,874 antimicrobial susc

SUBMITTER: Pillonetto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7841397 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature