Bacteriological Profile and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Isolates from Patients with Septicaemia in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Antimicrobial use and resistance in Democratic Republic of Congo: Implications and recommendations; A mini review

“…In DR Congo, where the health system has been disrupted, destabilized and weakened by lack of health facilities, insufficient provision on microbial surveillance but also very high resistance to antimicrobials has been recorded (3.8). With this very high rate of resistance to antimicrobials while many infectious diseases are commonly encountered in DR Congo, there is a risk of soon observing an ineffectiveness of antibiotics in the days to come while deaths are still recorded in this region due to conditions of displacement due to armed conflicts, which in turn lead to disease [ 8 ].…”

Antimicrobial resistance in Democratic Republic of Congo: the way forward

“…For example, several studies have shown that there is AMR to date, mainly to β-lactam antibiotics, Cephalosporins, Carbapenems, Colistin, and Tigecycline in DR Congo [2,4,7] . Researchers found that bacterial resistance to antibiotics concerned both gramnegative and gram-positive bacteria; MDR prevalence was the same in half of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates; a worrying prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus was noted, which is associated with coresistance to several other antibiotics; and resistance to third-generation cephalosporins was very high in Enterobacteriaceae, mainly because of blaCTX-M-1 group and blaSHV genes [5][6][7][8][9] . Data on carbapenem and colistin resistance were not available in DR Congo until recently.…”