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.
| 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 |
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).