Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance in US Children: A Multicenter Evaluation.

Open Forum Infect Dis

Becton, Dickinson & Company, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA.

Published: March 2023

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant challenge for treating pneumococcal disease. This study assessed AMR trends in from US children.

Methods: We evaluated antibiotic resistance, defined as facility antimicrobial susceptibility reports of intermediate/resistant, in 30-day nonduplicate isolates from children (<18 years of age) with invasive (blood or cerebrospinal fluid/neurological) or noninvasive (respiratory or ear/nose/throat) isolates at 219 US hospital inpatient/outpatient settings in the BD Insights Research Database (January 2011-February 2020). We used descriptive statistics to characterize the percentage of antimicrobial-resistant isolates and generalized estimating equations to assess variations in resistance over time.

Results: Of 7605 isolates analyzed, 6641 (87.3%) were from noninvasive sources. Resistance rates were higher in noninvasive versus invasive isolates. Isolates showed high observed rates of resistance to ≥1 drug class (56.8%), ≥2 drug classes (30.7%), macrolides (39.9%), and penicillin (39.6%) and significant annual increases in resistance to ≥1 drug class (+0.9%), ≥2 drug classes (+1.8%), and macrolides (+5.0%).

Conclusions: Among US children over the last decade, isolates showed persistently high rates of resistance to antibiotics and significant increases in ≥1 drug class, ≥2 drug classes, and macrolide resistance rates. Efforts to address AMR in may require vaccines targeting resistant serotypes and antimicrobial stewardship efforts.

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