What's new in WHONET 2024?

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Below is a list of some of the main new features that we have incorporated in WHONET 2024.

For a more detailed list of modifications for every major and minor release, you can view the Release notes.

• WHONET 2024 now includes updated clinical breakpoints for CLSI and EUCAST. We have also introduced a new feature to notify you of annual breakpoint updates, as well as any time we make corrections which require you to update your laboratory's configuration. This feature will check your configuration each time you download a new version from our website.
• WHONET 2024 now has support for several additional interpretation categories:
  • SDD: Susceptible dose-dependent
  • I?, NS?, SDD?: These categories are generated in certain situations for MIC measurements which don't precisely match the breakpoint definitions, but we expect that the intent was the underlying category.
• We have added or updated the WHO GLASS 2.0 module for AMR reporting exports. WHONET can now export in the following related formats:
  • GLASS-AMR (National yearly aggregate statistics)
  • GLASS-EGASP (Isolate-level reporting for gonorrhea)
  • GLASS-FUNGI (Isolate-level reporting for candidemia)
  • "GLASS-BACTERIA" also called "WHO-Individual" (Isolate-level reporting for bacteria)
• Expanded support for Animal Health and One Health AMR surveillance
  • FAO InFARM: Users can now export to the InFARM protocol in either isolate-level (Model A) or aggregate statistics (Model B).
  • Expanded organism, antibiotic, specimen, and species lists.
  • Update One Health sample database for teaching and demonstration purposes.
• We have updated supported formats for BacLink conversions, including:
  • Excel
  • ALIS (Uganda)
  • BLIS (Africa)
  • FAO InFARM
  • SENAITE
  • SILAB
• Both BacLink and WHONET have had several upgrades to improve processing speed.
• Updated the open-source AST Interpretation Engine with support for the 2024 breakpoints and interpretation categories mentioned above. This utility and library are intended to be integrated with other software, so they are not relevant for typical WHONET users. The code repository also stores the breakpoints and other important resources so that they are publicly accessible.
  You can find out more information about this utility here:
  WHONET.AMRIE GitHub
• WHONET and BacLink can now be installed and updated through the winget command-line utility instead of using our website by entering the following commands (for advanced users and system administrators familiar with the command line):
  winget install WHONET.WHONET
  winget update WHONET.WHONET