Pharmacovigilance network as an additional tool for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.
Jean Marie Vianney HabarugiraAlbert FiguerasPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2021)
Our findings suggest that Pharmacovigilance databases could serve as a tool in tracking antimicrobial use and resistance especially in settings where laboratory capacity is still in its development stages. National Pharmacovigilance centers could play a proactive role in stimulating the reporting of AMR-relevant ADRs which can serve as a basis for resistance suspicion alerts. Further studies focusing on the narrative and other clinical pharmacology details in ADR reports are required.