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Turkey
 APUA-Turkey
was established in 1994 and has over 50 members comprised of professors,
microbiologists and doctors from various disciplines that represent
nearly all of the Turkish universities. The Turkish chapter, along
with several other organizations including over 50 medical centers,
has been collecting data on nosocomial infections and causative
microorganisms along with their resistance patterns for the NosoLine
Project. A computer surveillance program was developed and educational
meetings were organized as a result of this project. Several APUA
Newsletters have been translated into Turkish and distributed
by APUA-Turkey and the Turkish Medical Association (TTB). The chapter
is in communication with the Ministry of Health and hopes to collaborate
with them in terms of antibiotic use education, particularly in
more rural areas where opportunities for continual professional
development is limited. According to APUA-Turkey the most urgent
and prevalent bacterial infectious diseases are tuberculosis, diarrhea,
typhoid, respiratory infections, S.aureus, E. coli
and P.aeruginosa infections and the increase of resistant
pathogens. In addition, inappropriate antibiotic use among humans
and farm animals exists as well. A problem sighted with their surveillance
capacities is the limited quality of data, which at the time of
the survey was derived only from a disc diffusion test.
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