WHONET 2026

WHONET 2026 26.8.27

WHONET is a free desktop Windows application for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory data with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance surveillance.

  • By Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Free
Download for Windows

About WHONET 2026

WHONET is a free desktop Windows application for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory data with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance surveillance developed and supported by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
WHONET, available in 45 languages, supports local, national, regional, and global surveillance efforts in over 2,300 hospital, public health, animal health, and food laboratories in over 130 countries worldwide.
WHONET 2026 is a modernized and expanded version of WHONET 5.6. This version supports 45 languages and includes new features for exporting to the WHO GLASS data structure.
It includes support for CLSI 2026 M100, M45, M60, M61, as well as EUCAST 2026 bacterial breakpoints. Also included are the most recent CLSI VET01, VET03/04, and VET06 breakpoints.

What's new in 26.8.27

Updates country name for Naoero to new ISO recommendation.
Ensure that the local specimen is properly retained for Microscan Interface imports in BacLink.

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherBrigham and Women's Hospital
Version26.8.27
LicenseFreeware
Installer typeburn
Architecturex86, x64
Package IDWHONET.WHONET

Links & install command

Install WHONET 2026 from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=WHONET.WHONET -e

AMRAntibioticsBacLinkBacteriologyCLSIEUCASTGLASSLaboratoryMicrobiologyResistanceWHO

Older versions

  • 26.8.18
  • 26.8.3
  • 26.7.31
  • 26.7.9
  • 26.6.25
  • 26.6.24
  • 26.6.16
  • 26.5.19
  • 26.4.16