‘Antimicrobial‐resistant isolate’ |
In the case of quantitative data, an isolate was defined as ‘resistant’ to a selected antimicrobial when its minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value (in mg/L) was above the cut‐off value or the disc diffusion diameter (in mm) was below the cut‐off value. The cut‐off values, used to interpret MIC distributions (mg/L) for bacteria from animals and food, are shown in Material and methods, Tables 5, 6 and 7 In the case of qualitative data, an isolate was regarded as resistant when the country reported it as resistant using its own cut‐off value or break point |
‘Level of antimicrobial resistance’ | The percentage of resistant isolates among the tested isolates |
‘Reporting MS group’ | MSs (MSs) that provided data and were included in the relevant table for antimicrobial resistance data for the bacteria–food/animal category–antimicrobial combination |
Terms used to describe the antimicrobial resistance levels |
Rare: < 0.1% Very low: 0.1–1.0% Low: > 1.0–10.0% Moderate: > 10.0–20.0% High: > 20.0–50.0% Very high: > 50.0–70.0% Extremely high: > 70.0% |