Links
SARI update articles are available here:
Other relevant documents/sections on the HPSC website include:
- Healthcare - associated infection and Infection Control
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Antimicrobial consumption surveillance
- Hand Washing / Hand Hygiene
- Care Bundles
- HPSC Annual Reports
The following websites have useful information on antimicrobial resistance for patients, health professionals and the general public:
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- UK Health Protection Agency (HPA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- The Northern Ireland Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan (AMRAP)
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has useful links to background material and articles on antimicrobial resistance
- The UK Department of Health has links to strategy documents and general information on antimicrobial resistance
- The 1999 North/South Study of MRSA in Ireland
Information, Data and Reports for
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
- Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption
- Antibiotics
- Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance
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European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)
- Latest EARS-Net Data and Reports
- EARS-Net Protocol
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Reference and Educational Resource Material
- Enterococcal bacteraemia (Enterococcus species (blood)) Case Definition
- Enterococci / VRE
- Escherichia coli infection (invasive) (Escherichia coli (blood, CSF))
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- S. aureus/MRSA
- S. pneumoniae
- Streptococcus pneumoniae infection (invasive) (Streptococcus pneumoniae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site))
- Infection Control and Healthcare-Associated Infection
- Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)
- Clostridioides difficile
- mcr-positive Enterobacteriaceae infection or colonisation
- MDRO (Multi Drug Resistant Organisms)
- Novel or rare antimicrobial resistant organism (NRAO)
- Links
Ireland’s specialist service for the surveillance of communicable diseases.