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International Forum of experts urge policy makers and global health organisations to improve anti-microbial resistance
San Diego, California - Leading experts from around the world convened today to urge policy-makers and healthcare professionals to improve professional and consumer antibiotic resistance education. Representatives from the International Forum on Antibiotic Resistance (IFAR) and leading health organisations evaluated current global and national educational programmes and identified the need for vast improvements in research and measurement of professional and consumer educational programmes as a prelude to the 42nd Interscience Conference on Anti-microbial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), 27-30 September 2002, San Diego, California, USA.
Link: IFAR
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 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards 2006/2007 Winners AnnouncedOxoid, a world leader in microbiology, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards:
1st Prize: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
2nd Prize: Cho Ray Hospital, Vietnam
Joint 3rd Prize: Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.
1st: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
The judges were unanimous in their decision to award t... More
More action to tackle C.Difficile as MRSA numbers continue to fall The Government's Chief Nursing Officer today welcomed a further reduction in MRSA bloodstream infections and announced the latest in a raft of measures to drive down rates of C.difficile in hospitals.
Latest statistics from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a decrease of 6.7% in MRSA bacteraemia on the last published quarterly data, while C difficile infections for 2006 were 7.6% higher than 2005, a smaller increase than in the previou... More
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