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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