Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27 Supplement - May 2003

Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27 Supplement - May 2003

This page contains links to the articles published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 27, Antimicrobial resistance in australia supplement issue, May 2003.

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This journal is indexed by Index Medicus, Medline and Australasian Medical Index

To search for an article by subject please refer to the CDI subject index 2003 (PDF version 34KB) (HTML version)

To search for an article by subject please refer to the CDI author index 2003 (PDF version 19KB) (HTML version)

Table of Contents - Volume 27 Supplement: Antimicrobial resistance in Australia - May 2003

Complete issue - Supplement: Antimicrobial resistance in Australia - May 2003 (PDF file 1295KB)

• Editorial: Antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 92KB)

• Introduction: Progress in the development of a national antibiotic resistance management program
  (Alexandra Geue)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 179KB)

• Regulation of veterinary antibiotics in Australia
  (Tim Dyke)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Improving antibiotic use: 25 years of antibiotic guidelines and related initiatives
  (Ken Harvey, Jonathon Dartnell, Mary Hemming)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 124KB)

• Active promotion of antibiotic guidelines: an intensive program
  (Susan Tiley, Jennifer MacDonald, Paula Doherty, John K Ferguson, John E Ferguson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 159KB)

• State-wide surveillance of in-hospital antimicrobial utilisation in South Australia
  (Catherine Dollman, Celia Cooper)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 178KB)

• Restriction of third generation cephalosporin use reduces the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in hospitalised patients
  (Claudia Thomas, Thomas Riley)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 129KB)

• Changing GPs' antibiotic prescribing: a randomised controlled trial
  (Eileen Wilson, Diruba Nasrin, Keith Dear, Robert Douglas)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 170KB)

• Antibiotic prescribing for upper repiratory-tract infections in primary care
  (Craig A Patterson, Judith M Mackson, Lynn M Weekes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 119KB)

• Consumer activities on antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (Jan Donovan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 126KB)

• Fifteen years of surveillance by the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)
  (Graeme R Nimmo, Jan M Bell, Peter J Collignon)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 191KB)

• Australian hospital morbidity data on antibiotic resistance
  (Jenny Hargreaves, Jenny Kok)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 131KB)

• SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program Asia-Pacific region and South Africa
  (Jan Bell, John Turnidge)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 166KB)

• TSN®Database Australia, a new tool to monitor antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (John Turnidge, Laurence R McCarthy, Ronald N Master, Douglas E Kepner, James Weslock)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 122KB)

• Monitoring antimicrobial resistance for public health action
  (John Tapsall)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 156KB)

• Ciprofloxacin resistance emerges in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Victoria, 1998 to 2001
  (Mark G K Veitch, Julia M Griffith, Melissa L Morgan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 128KB)

• Antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter jejuni isolated from humans in the Hunter Region, New South Wales
  (Hemant Sharma, Leanne Unicomb, Wendy Forbes, Steve Djordjevic, Mary Valcanis, Craig Dalton, John Ferguson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 183KB)

• Low levels of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli. A five-year trend in Australia measured through the use of TSN® database Australia
  (John Turnidge, Laurence R McCarthy, Ronald N Master, Douglas E Kepner)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 120KB)

• Surveillance of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in South Australia
  (Celia Cooper, Meredith A Ochota)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 153KB)

• Screening and electronic labelling of ward contacts of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faelcium vanB carriers during a single-strain hospital outbreak and after discharge from hospital
  (John W Pearman, Peta L Perry, Frank P Kosaras, Charles R Douglas, Rosie C Lee, Allison Peterson, C Terri Orrel, Claire H Khinsoe, Christopher H Heath, Keryn J Christiansen)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Polymerase chain reaction screening for integrons can be used to complement resistance surveillance programs
  (Louisa A Jones, Christopher J McIver, William D Rawlinson, Peter A White)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 176KB)

• Towards a national surveillance program for antimicrobial resistance in animals and animal-derived food
  (Jonathan Webber, Angelo Valois)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 133KB)

• Surveillance for antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli in food animals
  (David Jordan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 196KB)

• Antibiotic resistance in animals
  (Mary D Barton, Rachael Pratt, Wendy S Hart)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 137KB)

• Surveillance for antibiotic resistance in veterinary pathogens from the perspective of a regional diagnostic laboratory
  (Carol P Stephens)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 126KB)

• Australian Council on Healthcare Standards infection control clinical indicators
  (Kay L Richards, Dolly Olesen, Michael Whitby)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 85KB)

• Antibiotic resistance and the potential impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines
  (Ron Dagan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 179KB)

• Non-antibiotic therapies for infectious diseases
  (Christine F Carson, Thomas V Riley)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Reviewers for CDI supplement 2003 on antimicrobial resistance
  - Also available as a (PDF file 76KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado