Fig. 3: Four of the “worst” pathogen-antibiotic (PA) pair year-year correlations ranked by τ (as defined in Supplementary §5): these satisfy τ < 1/4.
From: Seeking patterns of antibiotic resistance in ATLAS, an open, raw MIC database with patient metadata
PA pairs typically have low values of τ because their correlelograms exhibit block structures consistent with high year-year correlations between MIC distributions that incorporate sudden changes. The particular MIC correlations shown here are for PA pairs that satisfy τ < 1/4 that are also classified as both D and M, as described in the text. An M label refers to a PA pair where sampling was very low in one particular year and pairs with high sampling variability across years are labelled with a V. Not shown here are other PA pairs with low sampling size across years (labelled as N) and ones where the discrepancy between TEST and INFORM MICs is high (labelled as D). Pairs that do not fall under any of these categories are labelled with a U and Supplementary Fig. 10 shows corelelograms for all the remaining PA pairs that satisfy τ < 1/4.
