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Title: | Antibiotic resistance surveillance and control in the Mediterranean region : report of the ARMed consensus conference |
Authors: | Borg, Michael Angelo Cookson, Barry D. Zarb, Peter Scicluna, Elizabeth A. |
Authors: | ARMed Steering Group and Collaborators |
Keywords: | Antibiotics Infection -- Control Tuberculosis -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Citation: | Borg, M. A., Cookson, B. D., Zarb, P., & Scicluna, E. A. (2009). Antibiotic resistance surveillance and control in the Mediterranean region: report of the ARMed consensus conference. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 3(09), 654-659. |
Abstract: | Antimicrobial resistance has become a global threat to effective health care delivery. This is particularly the case within the Mediterranean region, where data from recent studies suggests the situation to be particularly acute. A better knowledge base, as well as a collaborative effort, is therefore required to address this ever increasing challenge to effective patient care. Over its four-year period, the Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance and Control in the Mediterranean Region (ARMed) project investigated the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance, as well as its contributory factors, in a number of countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region through the collection of comparable and validated data. The project culminated in a consensus conference held in Malta in November 2006. The conference provided a forum for expert delegates to agree on a number of priority strategic recommendations that would be relevant to resistance containment efforts in the region. There was general agreement on the need for surveillance and audit to underpin any intervention to tackle antimicrobial resistance, both to monitor changing epidemiological trends in critical pathogens as well as to identify antibiotic consumption practices and effectiveness of prevention and control of health care associated infections. In addition, the importance to convey these data to key users was also stressed in all workshops, as was better education and training of health care workers. The recommendations also made it clear that ownership of the problem needs to be improved throughout the region and that resources, both financial as well as human, must be allocated by the respective policy makers in order to combat it. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102030 |
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