AUTHOR=Thomsen Jens , Abdulrazzaq Najiba M. , Nyasulu Peter S. , Al Hosani Farida , Habous Maya , Weber Stefan , Jabeen Fouzia ,  The UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium , Menezes Godfred Antony , Moubareck Carole Ayoub , Senok Abiola , Everett Dean B. , Senok Abiola , Alatoom Adnan , Sonnevend-Pal Agnes , Hammadi Ahmed Abdulkareem Al , Ahmed Ahmed Elhag , Yousef Ahmed F. , Enshasy Alaa MM , Madhi Amal Mubarak , AlBlooshi Amna , Podbielski Andreas , Nabi Anju , Poddar Anup Shashikant , Jha Arun Kumar , Marzooqi Ayesha Abdulla Al , Aden Bashir , Moubareck Carole Ayoub , Everett Dean , Jafri Deeba , Hong Duckjin , Nsutebu Emmanuel Fru , Al-Marzooq Farah Ibrahim , Dhaheri Fatima  Al , Jabeen Fouzia , Selvaraj Francis Amirtharaj , Wahab Ghada Abdel , Khoder Ghalia Abdul Khader , Patil Gitanjali Avishkar , Menezes Godfred A. , Hadayatullah Muhammad Ghulam , Ahmad Hafiz , Ismail Hala Ahmed Fouad , Khalifa Hazim , Alzabi Husein , Alhashami Ibrahim Alsayed Mustafa , Lazreg Imene , Akthar Irfaan , Thomsen Jens , Stelling John , Kayaf Kaltham Ali , Diddi Kavita , Ramabhadran Krishnaprasad , Dabal Laila Al , Thomsen Laura , Leili Chamani-Tabriz , Senghore Madikay , Ahmed Manal Abdel Fattah , Habous Maya , Zain Moeena , Mohamud M. Sheek-Hussein , Maheshwari Monika , Maheshwari Monika , Alfaresi Mubarak Saif , Khan Mushtaq , Abdulrazzaq Najiba , Shirawi Nehad Nabeel Al , Helmy Nesrin , Murad Pamela Fares , Frey Pascal , Nyasulu Peter , Nasa Prashant , Rajeshwari T. A. Patil , Lababidi Rania El , Kurahatti Ratna A. , Husain Riyaz Amirali , Swaka Robert Lodu Serafino Wani , Hussein Saeed , Soliman Sameh , Mudalagiriyappa Savitha , Oommen Seema , Alkaabi Shaikha Ghannam , Jog Simantini , Jog Simantini , O‘Sullivan, Siobhan , Basu Somansu , Weber Stefan , Majeed Sura Khamees , Rizvi Syed Irfan Hussein , Pal Tibor , Collyns Timothy Anthony , Ali Yassir Mohammed Eltahir , Naqvi Yousuf Mustafa , Babiker Zahir Osman , Zulfa Omar Al Deesi 

TITLE=Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Mycobacterium spp. in the United Arab Emirates: a retrospective analysis of 12 years of national antimicrobial resistance surveillance data

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1244353

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2024.1244353

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=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