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	The Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers Second Edition Stuart B. Levy, MD, Perseus Publishing: Boston, MA. 2002. description ...
	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 ...

Articles and Reports

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.

Antibiotic Resistance: Synthesis of Recommendation of Expert Policy Groups, APUA, 2001.

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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