Recommandations and reports
Office International des Epizooties
Controlling antibiotic uses around the world
HUMAN AND VETERINARIAN MEDECINE
Recommandations and reports
Office International des Epizooties
| European Scientific Conference | |
| The Use of Antibiotics in Animals Ensuring the Protection of Public Health - Paris, 24-26 March 1999 | |
| Conclusions and Recommandations |
Statens Serum Institut - Danish
Zoonosis Centre| DANMAP Reports: Consumption of antimicrobial agents and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from food animals, food and humans in Denmark | |
| http://www.vetinst.dk/high_uk.asp?page_id=180 |
The American Academy
of Microbiology| Antimicrobial Resistance: An Ecological Perspective (July 1999) | |
| Download report (pdf file) |
The Australian Ministers for Health and Aged Care, and for Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry| Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR) | |
| JETACAR report - 22 October 1999 | |
| The use of antibiotics in food-producing animals: antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals and humans (pdf file) |
The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products| Veterinary Medecines Evaluation Unit | |
| Antibiotic Resistance in the European Union Assiocated with Therapeutic use of Veterinary Medecines - 14 July 1999 | |
| Download report and qualitative risk assessment (zip file) |
The European Commission| Opinion of the Scientific Steering Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance - 28 May 1999 View/download opinion in PDF format (576 KB) | |
Council Resolution of 8 June 1999 on antibiotic resistance 'A strategy against the microbial threat' Official Journal C 195, 13/07/1999 p.0001 - 0003 |
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria from Animal Origin,
Volume 14 Issue 4, May 2000. Special issue free full text (PDF) at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ijantimicag |
Networks and surveillance systems
APUA
(Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics) - Dedicated to preserving the power
of antibiotics
Anti-Infective Drug Resistance.
Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR) - World Health Organisation
(WHO)
ARBAO - Antibiotic
Resistance in Bacteria from Animal Origin
CDER Home Page (Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance - An Integrated Action
Plan for Canadians - Organized by Health Canada and The Canadian Infectious
Disease Society
DAP - Action Programme on
Essential Drugs World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the
World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, other UN organizations and NGOs
EARSS - RIVM (National
Institute of Public Health and the Environment - European Antimicrobial Resistance
Surveillance Network)
ENARE - European
Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology - based at the Eijkman-Winkler
Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Utrecht
ESCMID -
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
EUCAST
- European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
HARMONY:
Harmonisation of Antibiotic Resistant measurement, Methods
of typing Organisms and ways of using these and other tools to increase
the effectiveness of Nosocomial infection control. HARMONY is a European
Union DG-XII-funded Fourth Framework Concerted Action
NARMS:
The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring
System was established in 1996 as a collaborative effort among the Food
and Drug Administrations’ Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA CVM), U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The NARMS program monitors changes in susceptibilities of human and animal enteric
bacteria to 17 antimicrobial drugs.
NARSA: Network on Antibiotic
Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Promoting
appropriate antibiotic use in the Community - Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
Resistance WEB™
- Analyzing Antibiotic Resistance Trends with Antibiotic Utilization
ROAR
(Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network) A unique network dedicated
to generating a new impetus worldwide for research on commensal bacteria as
reservoirs of resistance that can be transferred to human pathogens
WARN - World Antibiotic
Resistance Network
Other links
The European Commission: Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition - Outcome of discussions
The
Medical Impact of the Use of Antimicrobials in Food Animals. Report of a
WHO Meeting Berlin, Germany, 13-17 October 1997.
Use
of Quinolones in Food Animals and Potential Impact on Human Health. Report
of a WHO meeting, Geneva, World Health Organization, 2-5 June 1998 (WHO/EMC/ZDI/98.10)
"Petition
to Rescind Approvals of the Subtherapeutic Uses in Livestock of Antibiotics
Used in (or Related to Those Used in) Human Medicine". Submitted by
the Center for Science in the Public Interest - Environmental Defense Fund -
Food Animal Concerns Trust -Public Citizen’s Health Research Group - Union of
Concerned Scientists. March 9, 1999
Antibiotics for
animals. The Animal Health Industry’s Commitment To Understanding
the Causes of Antibiotic Resistance, FEDESA.