FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- EIR/00017
- Request Date
- January 26, 2016
- Subject
- Antibioltic Resistant Bacterial Infection
- Description
- Cases of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections in the hospital from 2010 onward, by calendar year.
Please use the following definition of important antibiotic resistance.
Definition
MDR (multidrug resistance) was defined as acquired non-susceptibility to at least one agent in three or more antimicrobial categories, XDR was defined as non-susceptibility to at least one agent in all but two or fewer antimicrobial categories (i.e. bacterial isolates remain susceptible to only one or two categories) and PDR was defined as non-susceptibility to all agents in all antimicrobial categories.
(Magiorakos AP, Srinivasan A, et al; Clin Microbiol Infect.2012 Mar; 18(3):268-281. doi: 10.111/1469-0691.2011.03570.x.)
- Figures of Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae
- Figures of PVL-MRSA cases
- Figures of C.difficile cases
- Figures of E.coli
- Please make a distinction between which were fatal and which were not fatal.
- Response
The information that you have requested is available from the Health protection England website, link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=public-health-england