Central Asian and European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance. Annual report 2020

This report describes resistance data from isolates obtained in 2019 from 12 countries in the WHO European Region - Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine - and Kosovo (in the context of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 [1999]).

The sixth Central Asian and European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (CAESAR) report includes resistance data from the Republic of Moldova for the first time, as well as information on the status of the overall coordination and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for all network members, results from the CAESAR external quality assessment (EQA) exercise in 2019, and a summary of the seven EQA exercises performed between 2013 and 2019. Furthermore, as in previous editions a reader’s guide is included that supports cautious interpretation of surveillance data, taking data reliability and representativeness into account.

WHO and partners are committed through the CAESAR network and its activities, to improve AMR surveillance in the region, to encourage the international sharing of data, and to guide countries that are building and improving AMR surveillance.