Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

🤖 Plain-English Summary

BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. There are serious data gaps in many low-income settings, emphasising the need to expand microbiology laboratory capacity and data collection systems to improve our understanding of this important human health threat.

🔑 Key Findings

• Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations.
• To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date.
• METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to and associated with bacterial AMR for 23 pathogens and 88 pathogen-drug combinations in 204 countries and territories in 2019.

🔗 Related Resources