Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.

ABSTRACT: The impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern. To compare the number of patients and isolation rate of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria before and after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic using the comprehensive national surveillance data. We utilized comprehensive surveillance data, collected in the Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance programme, which included a total of 16.7 million samples of 5.9 million tested patients from >1300 hospitals. We compared the number of patients and isolation rate of five bacteria between 2019 and 2020, including antimicrobial-susceptible and -resistant bacteria of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The

SUBMITTER: Hirabayashi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8457641 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature