Antimicrobial resistance monitoring: a review of information resources

WHONET: Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance

WHONET: an information system for monitoring antimicrobial resistance.

WHONET is an information system developed to support The World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal of global surveillance of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents. Microbiologists, clinicians and infection control workers may use its software to enhance monitoring of drug resistance in their hospitals and communities and to merge their files into national, regional, and global networks for ...

World Wide Web resources on antimicrobial resistance.

Advances of modern technology, including the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, have given clinicians and researches the opportunity to have immediate access to continuously updated information in various scientific fields. We compiled a list of World Wide Web resources of data from surveillance studies on antimicrobial resistance that may be useful to practitioners--especially...

Antimicrobial Resistance and the Alternative Resources with Special Emphasis on Plant-Based Antimicrobials—A Review

Indiscriminate and irrational use of antibiotics has created an unprecedented challenge for human civilization due to microbe's development of antimicrobial resistance. It is difficult to treat bacterial infection due to bacteria's ability to develop resistance against antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial agents are categorized according to their mechanism of action, i.e., interference with cell...

Antimicrobial resistance in Africa: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely acknowledged as a global problem, yet in many parts of the world its magnitude is still not well understood. This review, using a public health focused approach, aimed to understand and describe the current status of AMR in Africa in relation to common causes of infections and drugs recommended in WHO treatment guidelines. METHODS PubMed, EM...