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. 2026 Jan 15;15(1):87. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics15010087
Abbreviation Definition
AMR Antimicrobial Resistance
MDR Multidrug Resistance
AST Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
CLSI Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
EUCAST European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
SSA Sub-Saharan Africa
E. coli Escherichia coli
WHO World Health Organization
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
WOAH World Organization for Animal Health (formerly OIE)
GLASS Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System
AMRSNET Africa Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network
LMICs Low- and Middle-Income Countries
PICOTS Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, Timeframe, and Setting
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews
Q Cochran’s Heterogeneity Statistic
I2 I-squared (Measure of Statistical Heterogeneity)
CI Confidence Interval
Β Regression Coefficient
One Health Integrated Approach Linking Human, Animal, and Environmental Health