ACORN network manager Jill Hopkins presented an update of surveillance activities at the recent Oxford Tropical Network meeting in Bangkok

Now >36,000 patients enrolled with 2/3 having at least one blood culture collected

Tropical Medicine Oxford Wellcome

🦠Unlocking AMR’s mystery? Connecting bug & patient data appeared on many expert’s wishlists!

Paul Turner leads ACORN's fight against drug-resistant infections. Peak the quote card for his wish list.

Learn more about the ACORN study here👇
bit.ly/49JYqdz

Great work from Phoebe Williams and colleagues on the high rates of AMR in paediatric infections

Highlights limited treatment options and generally poor quality of surveillance data

Coverage gaps in empiric antibiotic regimens used to treat serious bac... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Implementing the new #SEDRILIMS in a microbiology laboratory from Sierra Leone. The system is free, easy to use and can be customised by the users for their specific needs and tests. Also makes statistics so much easier.

V2.6.2 of the ACORN app is now released.

The update just adds our new site in the Philippines plus a couple of minor bug fixes.

ACORN is expanding!

The Philippine General Hospital in Manila will soon come online as a semi-independent member of the network, focussing on neonatal and paediatric infections.

Great to meet the team for training this week!

@Wellcome_AMR MORU

An update to the ACORN app is now out (V2.6.1 - minor changes only):

▶️Added PH001 site.
▶️ Grouped sites per country in the Login box.

The MORU-OUCRU Wellcome-funded ACORN project begins Yr 2 of collecting clinical & microbiology data on community & hospital-acquired infections to assess #AMR 's impacts on hospitalisation duration & mortality in LMICs
Find out more! bit.ly/3KlBQfu

Version 2.6.0 of the ACORN app is now out

This update:
✅Fixes an issue with bar colours for the AMR plots
➡️Updates AST interpretations to 2023 versions of CLSI (M100-S33) / EUCAST (V13)
➡️Identifies patients without microbiology lab data, to help with local data quality checks

And we're done

The 1st ACORN AMR Network meeting was a great success

It was wonderful to hear updates from our 17 surveillance sites & to work through challlenges

Lots of ideas for the future: looking forward to workng on these in the coming months

Safe travels home everyone!

A brief virtual interlude to start the ACORN AMR Network meeting day 3

Q&A with Olivier Celhay, our RShiny dashboard developer

Nice to go through some of the more complicated AMR reporting functionality of the dashboard to ensure optimal use at the sites

After an excellent second day of discussions, it's time for an ACORN Network team dinner at the aptly named Eathai.

Final day tomorrow, where we will have presentations from the Wellcome AMR team, ADVANCE-ID, AMASS, SEDRI-LIMS, and other project partners.

A great first day for the ACORN Network Meeting!

Really excellent discussions and presentations.

Meet the team:

Just one week to go until the first ACORN AMR Surveillance Network meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

Very much looking forward to welcoming teams from across Africa and Asia to discuss progress and plans.

Travel safe everyone!

Apologies team ACORN - app v2.5.7 has a bug which necessitates an urgent update.

Apparently an updated html engine is not playing well with our selector widget.

Please update to v2.5.8 as soon as you can to get back to enjoying a painfree dashboard experience.

Another app update out now: V2.5.7

✅Properly fixed the missing specimen number issue (apologies for the last 'fix')

📊Made the co-resistance plots more useful by allowing exclusion of infrequently tested drugs

ACORN team: pls install the update and let us know if any problems

Good to see the results of the ACORN pilot now out: a slightly different implementation than the larger project with a narrower clinical focus. Some key lessons learned

Consider a pre-print: peer-reviews to follow

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-309

@Wellcome_AMR MORU Tropical Medicine Oxford

ACORN is having a positive impact on utilisation of diagnositc microbiology services in our Kenyan surveillance sites!

Symposia were held at both Kitale and Bungoma as part of #WAAW2022 activities.

Great to see the teams in action:

Fantastic to finally meet the ACORN Indonesia team face to face after nearly two years of Zoom!

Lots of very productive discussions on the local uses for AMR surveillance data - looking forward to more tomorrow

Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia MORU @Wellcome_AMR

An exciting update from ACORN Vietnam

This week the OUCRU Hanoi and NHTD teams paid a visit Hue Central Hospital to plan project activities

We are very much looking forward to Hue joining the ACORN AMR surveillance network