General antimicrobial susceptibility data collected from hospital and community laboratories

Antimicrobial susceptibility data generated from routine diagnostic susceptibility testing in hospital and community microbiology laboratories is collected and analysed annually.  Data for a range of organisms and antibiotics is collected. The organisms currently include Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex, Enterobacter from bacteraemia, Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium from bacteraemia, Escherichia coli from bacteraemia and urinary sources, Klebsiella from bacteraemia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa from bacteraemia, and Staphylococcus aureus from bacteraemia and skin and soft tissue infection.

Until 2015 inclusive, susceptibility data was also collected for Campylobacter species, Citrobacter freundii, coagulase-negative staphylococci from blood, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Morganella morganii, Proteus mirabilis, Serratia species, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes.

Until 2012 inclusive, susceptibility data was also collected for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Since 2013, gonococcal susceptibility data has been collected as part of the laboratory-based surveillance of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the results are included in the annual STI surveillance reports which are available here.

Please note that the data for the years prior to 2016 is presented as rates of resistance whereas data for the years 2016 onwards is presented as rates of susceptibility.