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Comment
. 2023 Jul 12;20(7):e1004265.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004265. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Antimicrobial resistance: Strengthening surveillance for public health action

Silvia Bertagnolio  1 , Amitabh Bipin Suthar  2 , Olga Tosas  1 , Kitty Van Weezenbeek  1
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Antimicrobial resistance: Strengthening surveillance for public health action

Silvia Bertagnolio et al. PLoS Med. .
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We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: ABS is an Academic Editor on PLOS Medicine’s editorial board.

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Fig 1. Bacteriologically confirmed bloodstream infections (BSIs) with antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results per one million population, reported to WHO GLASS in 2020 (adapted from [8]).
In 2020, GLASS collated bacteriologically confirmed bloodstream infections due to the following pathogens: Acinetobacter spp., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Reporting shows gross heterogeneity in patient population testing coverage (relative to the total population in each country) for one of the most life-threatening infectious syndromes. Of note, several counties were not able to report 2020 AMR data to GLASS during the COVID-19 pandemic. (The whomap R package used for map layers can be found at https://github.com/glaziou/whomap).
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