Erika Vlieghe

TL;DR: The global situation of antibiotic resistance, its major causes and consequences, and key areas in which action is urgently needed are described and identified.

TL;DR: This work highlights challenges for ABS initiatives in LMICs, gives an outline of (inter)national recommendations and demonstrates examples of effective, contextualized stewardship interventions.

TL;DR: The hospital LoS for patients that recover is shorter for patients living in a nursing home, but the time to death is longer for these patients, and over the course of the first wave, the LoS has decreased.

TL;DR: This consensus on core elements for hospital AMS programmes is relevant to both high- and low-to-middle-income countries and could facilitate the development of national AMS stewardship guidelines and adoption by healthcare settings worldwide.

TL;DR: It is argued that the implementation of clinical bacteriology in low-resource settings improves patient management, provides valuable surveillance for local antibiotic treatment guidelines and national policies, and supports containment of antimicrobial resistance and the prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections.