Do Bugs Need Drugs Program? - Alberta

Continuing Education Program for Pharmacists: Antibiotic Resistance (Adobe Acrobat document)

The Antibiotic Safety ZoneTM

CBC Radio Series and Useful Links
5-part series on antibiotic resistance first broadcast - April 13-17, 1998

IMS HEALTH Canada

The Cochrane Collaboration - Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients (Review) (Adobe Acrobat document)

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled noninferiority trial of amoxicillin for clinically diagnosed acute otitis media in children 6 months to 5 years of age,N Le Saux et al, CMAJ, February 1, 2005, 172 (3) (Adobe Acrobat document)

CID release on Antibiotic NA vs Europe June 1 2004 (Microsoft Word document)

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Resistance information for patients, physicians and hospital care settings.

Guidelines for the prophylaxis and treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the UK. Published in March issue of the Journal of  Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (Adobe Acrobat document)

Information on community-acquired MRSA made available from the Mayo Clinic. October 2005 (Adobe Acrobat document)

 

The Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance

Infection Prevention and Control Best Practice Guidelines for Small Animal Veterinary Clinics. (Adobe Acrobat Document)

Pratiques exemplaires de la prévention et du contrôle des infections (document pdf)

The 2007-2008 CCAR ANNUAL REPORT is now ready.
Click here to download it in pdf format

CCAR is pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret Litt as Executive Director effective September 1, 2008.

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL BEST PRACTICES

UPCOMING EVENTS

26th International Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection "The Changing Climate of Infectious Diseases" Incorporating the AMMI Canada - CACMID Annual Conference 2009