3 The structure of national AMR surveillance systems

WHO GLASS-AMR recommends that national AMR surveillance systems have three core components, as illustrated in Figure 2, namely:

• national coordinating centre (NCC)
• national reference laboratory (NRL)
• selected AMR surveillance sites.

Figure 2 The core components of a national AMR surveillance system (WHO, 2020).

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A graphic showing the core components of a national AMR surveillance system: surveillance sites, a national coordinating centre and a national reference laboratory.

Figure 2 The core components of a national AMR surveillance system (WHO, 2020).

Let’s discuss these three components in detail.