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. 2022 Aug 31;11(1):1594. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v11i1.1594

TABLE 2.

Number of countries on the African continent enrolled in GLASS and reporting AST results during the three data GLASS calls (2017–2019), as well as availability of data stratification by age, gender and infection origin and data on the number of patients from which a diagnostic sample was taken (tested).

Data call (year) Number of countries reporting patients AST results List of countries Number of countries reporting additional variables (%)
Age
Gender
Infection origin
Number of tested patients
N % N % N % N %
2017 6 Egypt, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia 4 67 5 83 4 67 1 17
2018 9 Egypt, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia 8 89 9 100 4 44 6 67
2019 10 Egypt, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda 10 100 10 100 7 70 10 100

GLASS, Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System; AST, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.