Navigating the World Wide Web in search of resources on antimicrobial resistance.
This overview gives information on navigating for English-language Web sites on antimicrobial resistance. Web sites were gathered on the basis of personal files, articles, and an exhaustive Web search of cross-links from other Web pages. The Web sites were categorized according to users' needs into 5 broad categories, as follows: comprehensive Web sites, with information on all aspects of antimicrobial resistance-related issues; Web sites with patient information about antimicrobial resistance and about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, in particular; Web sites covering current multinational surveillance programs; Web sites on prevention of antimicrobial resistance in health care facilities; and Web sites on control of antimicrobial resistance in the community. We compiled a selection of Web sites that seemed to be useful as starting points for physicians, epidemiologists, researchers, or patients interested in this topic.
Harbarth
Stephan
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. harbarth@post.harvard.edu
Emonet
Stephane
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D004346:Drug Information Services; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet