Aims of the study

Our overarching aim is to best understand if and how we can help local, regional and global health systems and agencies deploy standard clinical bacteriology speciation and antibiotic susceptibility testing for the mentioned infections at hospital arrival and during hospitalization to help guide the administration of antibiotics fairly across the globe as fast as possible.

To answer these questions our objective is to run a retrospective study in 6 different most-affected areas by the COVID-19 pandemic: USA, Mexico, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India and Spain.