Useful Links

Australian-based websites and email discussion groups

Australian Society for Microbiology

http://www.theasm.com.au

Communicable Diseases Intelligence (Journal)

http://health.gov.au/cdi

Australian Centre for Disease Control

https://www.cdc.gov.au

Mycology Online

http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/

http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Laboratory_Methods/Antifungal_Susceptibility_Testing/

Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic

https://www.tg.org.au/

International-based websites and email discussion groups

British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)

https://bsac.org.uk/

Canadian Animal Health Institute

https://www.cahi-icsa.ca/

Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network (CBSN)

http://microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca/research/cbsn.shtml

Canadian Pediatric Society

https://cps.ca/en/

CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance

Email discussion groups

ProMED

http://www.promedmail.org/.

Links pages

Health Protection Agency (UK)

http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/antimicrobial_resistance/links.htm

IDlinks (Alan Tice’s website) – Antimicrobial resistance links

http://www.idlinks.com/antimicrobial_resistance.htm

Other sites

CDS

http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology-cds/

Antimicrobial Resistance-Related Issues

Action on Antibiotic Resistance (React)
http://www.react-group.org

CCAR (Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance)
http://www.ccar-ccra.com

MRSA

MRSA General Information

Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse (Keep Antibiotics Working Group)
http://keepantibioticsworking.org

Current Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Programs

Academia/government Driven Programs

Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/abcs/

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (CDC and FDA)
http://www.cdc.gov/narms

Invasive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (under the auspices of CDC)
http://www.sph.emory.edu/ICARE/index.php

Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Health Care Facilities

Comprehensive Sites

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
http://www.apic.org

Hospital Infection Society (United Kingdom)
http://www.his.org.uk