Background The profound changes wrought by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on
routine hospital operations may have influenced performance on hospital measures, including …

Antimicrobial use in food animals selects for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, which can
spread to people. Reducing use of antimicrobials—particularly those deemed to be critically …

The foreseen decline in antibiotic effectiveness explains the needs for data to inform the
global public health agenda about the magnitude and evolution of antibiotic resistance as a …

It is crucial to monitor emerging trends in resistance at the local level to support clinical
decision making, infection-control interventions, and antimicrobial-resistance containment …

Nanotechnology is a scientific and engineering technology conducted at the nano-scale, such
as in the fields of compound fabric manufacturing, food processing, agricultural processing…

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on health systems. The
WHO Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating …

Genes expressing resistance to each antimicrobial agent emerged after each agent became
widely used. More than a hundred such genes now spread selectively through global …

Low-resource settings are disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases and
antimicrobial resistance. Good quality clinical bacteriology through a well functioning reference …

Microbial surveillance systems have varied in their source of support; type of laboratory
reporting (patient care or reference); inclusiveness of reports filed; extent of microbial typing; …

WHONET is an information system developed to support The World Health Organization’s (WHO)
goal of global surveillance of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents. …