Survey protocol for the ECDC genomic-based survey of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe v1.3

Errata

On 2 October 2024, the following corrections were made to this report:

• In Table 2, the number of ‘Level 2’ regions for the selected EU candidate and potential candidate countries was updated, from 26 to 38. This also increased the total number of ‘Level 2’ regions. Box 1 is also updated, to reflect the updated number of ‘Level 2’ regions in eligible countries (N=291).
• Annex 3 contains minor updates. As stated in the section ‘metadata structure’, these metadata will be included in the annual ECDC metadata update process, so remain subject to additional changes. In Table 7, the changes include removing a duplicated row (“HospitalId”); updating a variable name (“PrescribedAntimicrobial”); and updating variable descriptions to align with the main text of this survey protocol.
• In the section ‘How to complete Form C (hospital staff +/- national staff)’, the definition of a survey period is now stated explicitly.
• In ‘planned data analyses’, a reference to an annex has been corrected, to Annex 8 rather than Annex 7.
• Annex 10 was edited so that the third green box from top contains “AND ‘n’ isolates from CSAb colonisation, so that the ‘N’ of submitted isolates is 10” rather than “AND ‘n’ isolates from CSAb infection, so that the ‘N’ of submitted isolates is 10”.