Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2024; 26(4):417-425
To evaluate the results of implementing the AMRcf and AMRcloud platforms for microbiological surveillance studies of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) into the routine practice of a microbiological laboratory.
The study was performed on the basis of the Department of Microbiology of the Clinical diagnostic laboratory of the Clinics of the Samara State Medical University. To perform the study, the following computer programs were introduced into routine practice: AMRcf (online microbiological registry for CF patients) and AMRcloud (online platform for analysis of collected data on antibiotic resistance). The results of microbiologic studies conducted from 2018 to 2023 from 16 regions of the Russian Federation were retrospectively entered into the AMRcf online platform.
A total of 3052 isolates isolated from CF patients were entered into the AMRcf registry database for individual analysis. The generated data pool in AMRcf was tested for automated upload to the AMRcloud platform, which was subsequently used to analyze the accumulated data at the level of the study population. Implementation of the AMRcf platform allowed to provide: storage and access to microbiological data of CF patients; integration of data from different regions and sources, individual microbiological anamnesis for each patient in real time, interaction of specialists from different fields dealing with the problem of microbiological diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy in CF patients.
Implementation of the AMRcf online registry and the AMRcloud online platform in the workflow of the microbiology laboratory enables individualized surveillance of the microbiota of cystic fibrosis patients in different regions of the Russian Federation. Data from the AMRcf and AMRcloud online platforms can be used in routine practice by microbiologists, clinicians, and epidemiologists.