(Description) Figure 10 Number of countries in different WHO regions with an established national reference laboratory for AMR (WHO, 2017b): AFR, WHO African region; AMR, WHO region for the Americas; EMR, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region; EUR, WHO European Region; SEAR, WHO South-East Asia Region; WPR, WHO Western Pacific Region.

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This figure shows a bar graph representing the number of countries in different WHO regions with an established national reference laboratory for AMR. WHO regions are given on the horizontal axis (AFR, WHO African region; AMR, WHO region for the Americas; EMR, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region; EUR, WHO European Region; SEAR, WHO South-East Asia Region; WPR, WHO Western Pacific Region.) The vertical axis is labelled number of countries and marked from 0 to 20 in intervals of 5. The graph shows the number of countries with established reference laboratories in blue and the number of countries where laboratories are not established in orange. The region with the highest number of countries with established laboratories is the EUR. The region with the lowest number of countries with established laboratories is SEAR. EMR and EUR both have countries where laboratories have not been established.