Table 1 The 5 different antibiotic resistance databases used in this study: only ATLAS stores patient metadata which means that it can be compared with other databases in terms of their derived datatypes, but the converse is not possible.

From: Seeking patterns of antibiotic resistance in ATLAS, an open, raw MIC database with patient metadata

database

datatype

patient metadata (pathogen, antibiotic and ...)

ATLAS

raw patient MICs

multiple MICs per patient/year/location/infection site

- TEST

a subset of ATLAS

multiple MICs per patient/year/location/infection site

  

covering years 2004-2017

- INFORM

a subset of ATLAS

multiple MICs per patient/year/location/infection site

  

covering years 2012-2017

- AWARE

a subset of ATLAS

multiple MICs per patient/year/location/infection site

 

data not analysed herein

covering years 2008-2017

EUCAST

aggregated MIC histograms

no patient metadata; drug & pathogen are specified

ESPAUR

frequency of resistance

no patient metadata; drug & pathogen are specified

Resistance Map

frequency of resistance

no patient metadata; drug & pathogen are specified

ECDC

frequency of resistance

no patient metadata; drug & pathogen are specified

  1. The acronyms used are: ATLAS (Antimicrobial Testing Leadership and Surveillance), EUCAST (the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing), ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) and ESPAUR (English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance).