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| Web Pages |
| CDC's Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings Home Page |
| Working to prevent antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings. |
| Antibiotic Resistance in Virginia: Save Antibiotic Strength Collaboration |
| Antibiotic resistance resources for physicians and patients. Includes links to clinical practice guidelines. |
| Antibiotic Resistance |
| Examins how the overuse antibiotics and bacteria can become resistant to them. |
| Antibiotic Resistance: A Growing Threat |
| US FDA provides information on disease-causing organisms that have become resistant to drug therapy are an increasing public health problem. |
| CDC Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases: Antibiotic Resistance |
| Information about a national campaign to reduce antimicrobial resistance through promotion of more appropriate antibiotic use. Includes CDC recommendations and activities. |
| Antibiotics: An Untold Story |
| Examines how the widespread use of antibiotics has contributed to the problem of antibiotic resistance, and provides information for consumers to protect their health. |
| Antimicrobial Resistance |
| Fact sheet from the World Health Organization. |
| Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics |
| A bacteriology lecture given at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
| Environmental Media Services: Antibiotic Resistance |
| Examines antibiotics and their use in medicine, food, and agriculture; and environmental and public health concerns raised by antibiotic use. |
| Resistance to Antibiotics and Other Microbial Agents |
| Comprehensive report on antibiotic resistance and its public health consequences, commissioned by the United Kingdom Parliament, Select Committee on Science and Technology. |
| Tufts University Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance (CAGDR) |
| Investigates common biologic themes in the adaptation responses of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells to environmental signals and hazards. |
| Types of Antibiotics and Related Resistance Genes |
| Examines antibiotic resistance mechanisms. |
| International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents |
| Provides peer reviewed reference information on the physical, pharmacological, in vitro and clinical properties of individual antimicrobial agents. Site includes subscription information and tables of contents. |
| Jump in Drug-Resistant Germs Forecast |
| Article on the rise of antibiotic-resistant germs. [MSNBC] |
| Wisconsin Antibiotic Resistance Network |
| Dedicated to reducing antibiotic overuse and the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause many upper respiratory illnesses. |
| Utah Alliance Working for Antibiotic Resistance Education |
| Provides community education to prevent the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. |
| Antibiotic Resistance - Texas Department of Health |
| Information, educational material and resources for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE), and Vancomycin-Resistant Stapylococcus aureus (VRSA). |