Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance for WHO Priority Pathogens in Kenya, 2021-2025

Routine surveillance data from tertiary and county-level hospitals across Kenya between 2021 and 2025 provides nationally representative profiles of bacterial resistance. The dataset, collected by the National Public Health Institute, focuses on WHO priority pathogens and their susceptibility to commonly used antibiotics. It was authored by Loice Achieng Ombajo of Fleming and updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal trends of antimicrobial resistance based on surveillance data from 2021 to 2025
• Analyzing pathogen distribution patterns across public and private health facilities in Kenya
• Informing public health interventions based on nationally representative resistance profiles
• Benchmarking local AMR rates against WHO GLASS recommendations for priority pathogen–antimicrobial combinations

Strengths

• Data spans a five-year surveillance period from 2021 to 2025
• Includes records from both public and private tertiary and county-level hospitals across Kenya
• Focuses on WHO priority bacterial pathogens and recommended antimicrobial combinations

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling

Provenance

Source

National Public Health Institute (NPHI) surveillance system

Collection Method

Routine laboratory records of bacterial isolates and antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Time Range

2021 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 06:38:17

Geography

Kenya