Enumerating the economic cost of antimicrobial resistance per antibiotic consumed to inform the evaluation of interventions affecting their use

Table 6 Cost per Standard Unit (SU) and full course antibiotic consumed per resistant organism

	Thailand					United States
	S. aureus	E. coli	K. pneumoniae	A. baumanii	P. aeruginosa	S. aureus	E. coli	K. pneumoniae	A. baumanii	P. aeruginosa
Direct Cost (million US$)	11	3	5	29	5	42	4	12	5	5
Indirect Cost (million US$)	56	9	5	367	8	2184	97	297	118	120
Total economic loss (million US$)	66	12	11	396	13	2226	101	309	122	125
Antibiotics consumed (million SU)	965	774	778	683	683	4797	3867	4646	3888	3888
Direct cost per SU	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Indirect Cost per SU	0.06	0.01	0.01	0.54	0.01	0.46	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.03
Cost per SU	0.07	0.01	0.01	0.58	0.02	0.46	0.03	0.07	0.03	0.03
Cost per full course^a	0.69	0.15	0.14	5.80	0.19	4.64	0.26	0.66	0.31	0.32

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