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Publications about Antibiotic Use and Resistance
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Books
Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the field of antibiotic resistance, Antibiotic Policies: Fighting Resistance addresses many of the key issues burdening our societies and hospitals during this era of antibiotic resistance and growing shortage of new antibiotics. The book provides practical advice and control strategies for the critical problems related to current antibiotic resistance epidemics and for any future problems associated with antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic Polices: Fighting Resistance is highly recommended for health professionals with an interest in this field.

Antibiotic Policies: Fighting Resistance
Edited by
Ian M. Gould
Jos W.M. Van Der Meer
Foreword by John McGowan


 

Resistencia antimicrobiana en las Américas: Magnitud del problema y su contención

Publicación de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2000.  contenido del libro ...

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Americas: Magnitude and Containment of the Problem

Publication of the Pan American Health Organization, 2000.  description ...

Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic

This common sense approach to the continuing dilemmas of antibiotic use and microbial resistance has now been in publication for 25 years.

2003 updated therapeutic guidelines on antibiotics  order here ...

Frontiers in Antimicrobial Resistance: a Tribute to Stuart B. Levy

David G. White, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Michael N. Alekshun, Paratek Pharmaceuticals; Patrick F. McDermott, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2005.

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Uso y Abuso de los Antibioticos

Uso y Abuso de los Antibióticos: ¿Dónde estamos y adónde queremos llegar?

Gabriel Levy Hara, MD; Aníbal Sosa, MD; Arena, 2006

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Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria

Antimicrobial Reistance in Bacteria

Editor: Carlos Amábile-Cuevas; Horizon Bioscience, 2006

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Articles and Reports

Antibiotic Resistance in Africa - Discerning the enemy and plotting defense by Iruka N. Okeke and Anibal Sosa.

The PAHO Clinical Guide for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases

The PAHO Clinical Guide for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases (published in Spanish) offers a model for countries to adapt and implement among prescribers. It offers a comprehensive approach in the choice of antimicrobial agents for the empirical treatment of infectious diseases in the community and hospital settings. This guide, for practical use, has a plain text for reference.(31/Dec/2002).

Perspectives in Health Magazine, PAHO, Antibiotics: Are We Killing the Cures? (English), Antibióticos: ¿Estamas acabando con los remedios? (Español), by A. Spatuzza, 7(1), 2002.

WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance, WHO, 2001. Available in English, Spanish or Russian. The Executive Summary is also available in French.

Emerging Infectious Diseases article on the issues raised by using antibacterial products in healthy households. SB Levy, 2001.

FDA Consumer reports that antibiotic resistance is becoming a public-health nightmare, 2002.

Scientific American article on antibiotic resistance: The challenge of Antibiotic Resistance, SB Levy, 1998.

Ciba Foundation Symposium: Antibiotic Resistance: An Ecological Imbalance, SB Levy, 1997.

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APUA Publications and Reports

American Academy of Microbiology releases report on antibiotic resistance

Patient Behaviors and Beliefs Regarding Antibiotic Use: Implications for Clinical Practice - Poster 1

Patient Behaviors and Beliefs Regarding Antibiotic Use: Implications for Clinical Practice - Poster 2

AMROAR Scientific Meeting Report

APUA Newsletter

APUA World Congress:   Final 2007 program; View 2006 Program

A Report of the Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and the Impact on Resistance (FAAIR) Project
(UChicago Journals, Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 41, Number 4, 15 August 2005, p. i-e44, etc.)

FULL REPORT- The Need to Improve Antimicrobial Use in Agriculture Ecological and Human Health Consequences
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cid/34/s3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- Global Antimicrobial Resistance Alerts and Implications
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/430780
INTRODUCTION
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/432443
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- Select Findings, Conclusions, and Policy Recommendations
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/430781

Stelling, JM, Travers K, Jones RN, Turner PJ, O'Brien TF, Levy SB. Integrating Escherichia coli antimicrobial susceptibility data from multiple surveillance programs. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2005; 11:873-82.

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. Shadow Epidemic: the growing menace of drug resistance. Executive summary of the 2005 GAARD report. Boston: APUA, 2005.

Levy SB, Marshall B. Antibacterial resistance worldwide: causes, challenges, and responses. Nat Med 2004: 10(Suppl 12):S122-9.

"Facing the Next Pandemic of Pan-resistant Gram-negative Bacilli." Report from APUA Education Symposium, September 30, 2004.

The Need to Improve Antimicrobial Use in Agriculture: Ecological and Human Health Consequences, A Report of the Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and the Impact on Resistance (FAAIR) Project, Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 June 2002, Volume 34, Supplement 3.

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance: synthesis of recommendations by expert policy groups. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2001.

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Key References

October 23, 2007
Bad Bugs, Few Drugs

August 24, 2007
Fighting Superbugs- Congressional Quartely

 

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