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Georgia
APUA-Georgia was founded
in February of 2003. It was founded in affiliation with the Service
of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy by the members of the Infectious Disease
Department of Tbilisi Medical Academy. The chapter’s membership
includes physicians from the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics,
as well as the Sepsis Research Center and the Center of Infectious
Pathology. The APUA-Georgia chapter’s ultimate goals include:
- Implementing periodic training of heath care workers who are
eligible to prescribe drugs.
- Encouraging the involvement of national and international
agencies in technical training, education and research related
to the prudent use of antibiotics.
- Facilitating research on antimicrobial prescribing in children
with respiratory tract infections in Georgia.
- Developing the national antibiotic guidelines, which will
assist individual health and veterinary institutions to formulate
local antibiotic guidelines.
- Requiring that antibiotics used for therapeutic purpose in
humans and animals not to be used as growth promoters or prophylactic
agents in animal feed.
The chapter produces a periodic publication for physicians entitled
the Bulletin of Antimicrobial Therapy.
To go to an index of items posted on the APUA-Georgia website,
click here: www.apua.org.ge
Chapter
Achievements & Ongoing Activities
- Prepared new national guidelines presented at the May 31,
2008 at the APUA-Georgia conference:
- 1. Guideline for the management of bacterial meningitis
- 2. Guideline for the management of nosocomial pneumonia
- Recent studies include:
- MRSA carriage in children
- Antimicrobial activity of polymyxin B against non-fermentative
Gram-negative bacteria in Georgia
- ESBL in Georgia
- ESCMID and APUA-Georgia, APUA-Azerbaijan and APUA-Italy international
workshop for Caucasian Countries, October 2007
Upcoming International Chapter Events
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