Abstract The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Resistance
Surveillance Project was initiated in light of the need for UK-wide surveillance of …

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance currently has a high profile. One surveillance system
with wide representation in Europe is the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance …

Abstract Objectives The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Bacteraemia
and Respiratory Resistance Surveillance Programmes are designed for long-term …

Ten years ago O'Brien et al. 1 described the position on antibiotic resistance surveillance as
follows:'There are no reliable data in this area—simply fragments of information and …

The plans for a new antimicrobial utilization and resistance national surveillance
programme, alongside the development of quality measures and methods to monitor …

After the dramatic expansion of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing
Escherichia coli and Klebsiella in the UK and Ireland from 2001 onwards, the situation …

Increasing concern about the emergence of resistance in clinically important pathogens has
led to the establishment of a number of surveillance programmes to monitor the true extent …

Presented here is the 5-year impact of a national antimicrobial resistance surveillance
system in Ireland, which was introduced in accordance with the European Antimicrobial …

The golden age of antibiotics in the 1940s and 1950s led many scientists to the belief that
infectious disease as a cause of patient morbidity and mortality was soon to become a thing …

The increase in microorganisms that have developed resistance to currently available
antimicrobial agents has become a major cause for concern worldwide. These organisms …