Socioeconomic status and the risk for colonization or infection with priority bacterial pathogens: a global evidence map.

This review identified several gaps in the current literature describing relationships between SES and risks for colonization/infection with community-acquired bacterial pathogens. First, we identified few studies from LMICs, despite LMICs having the highest burden of AMR. Only a fraction of published studies reported data stratified by SES, as SES is more often controlled for rather than analyzed as an exposure of interest in bacterial colonization and infection studies. Of the studies that did report results stratified by SES, few examined collinearity between reported SES characteristics, making it challenging to assess the most important exposures driving or mediating observed associations. Future studies should report data stratified by SES characteristics or SES deprivation scores to allow for a better understanding of the complex interplay between SES and health, especially in LMICs.