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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 12 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1244353
Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mycobacterium spp. in the United Arab Emirates: A retrospective analysis of twelve years of National AMR Surveillance Data
Provisionally accepted
Jens Thomsen
1,2*
Najiba Abdulrazzaq
3
Peter Nyasulu
4
Farida Al Hosani
1*
Maya Habous
5*
UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium
6*
Godfred A. Menezes
7
Carole Ayoub Moubareck
8*
Abiola Senok
9
Dean Everett
10,11,12*- 1 Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 2 Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 3 Emirates Health Services Establishment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 4 Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- 5 Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 6 UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 7 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medical Sciences, RAK Medical and Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
- 8 College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 9 Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 10 College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 11 Biotechnology Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 12 Infection Research Unit, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) region accounts for almost 8% of all global Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) cases, with TB incidence rates ranging from 1 per 100,000 per year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to 204 per 100,000 in Djibouti. The national surveillance data from the EMRO/ Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on the epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance trends of TB, including MDR-TB remains scarce.A retrospective twelve-year analysis of N=8,086 non-duplicate diagnostic Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB complex) isolates from the UAE was conducted. Data were generated through routine patient care during the 2010-2021 years, collected by trained personnel and reported by participating surveillance sites to the UAE National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance program. Data analysis was conducted with WHONET, a windows-based microbiology database software developed by the World
Keywords: TB, Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Surveillance, antibiotics, MDR-TB, Antimicrobial-resistance, UAE, MENA (Middle East and North Africa)
Received: 22 Jun 2023; Accepted: 18 Apr 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Thomsen, Abdulrazzaq, Nyasulu, Al Hosani, Habous, Surveillance Consortium, Menezes, Ayoub Moubareck, Senok and Everett. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jens Thomsen, Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Farida Al Hosani, Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Maya Habous, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium, UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Carole Ayoub Moubareck, College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dean Everett, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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