The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy is working with the pharmaceutical industry to establish a series of antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance surveillance programmes. Image: microscope
The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy provides results from antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial resistance surveillance programmes. Image: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Logo
The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy also offers analyses of the data in MRSA and MIC distributions. Image: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Resistence Surviellance Websites

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Alexander Network (GSK)
APUA - Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
ARPAC - Antibiotic Resistance Prevention and Control
BSAC - British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
BSAC breakpoints
BSAC methods - Standardized Disc Susceptibility Method (includes MIC breakpoints and additional methodology)
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
EARSS - European Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance System
ECDC - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ESAC - European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption
ESBLs - Laboratory Detection & Reporting of Bacteria with Extended-Spectrum beta-Lactamases (HPA Guidance, June 2004)
ESCMID - European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
ESGAP - ESCMID Study Group on Antibiotic Policies
EUCAST - European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
GR Micro - Medical Microbiological Services
Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis and susceptibility testing of MRSA (JAC 2005)
Guidelines for the prophylaxis and treatment of MRSA infection in the UK (JAC 2006)
HIS - Hospital Infection Society (UK)
HPA - Health Protection Agency (UK)
SRGA - Swedish Reference Group on Antibiotics (includes wild-type MIC distributions)
WHO - World Health Organisation (Antimicrobial Resistance site)
WHO AR-InfoBank - Antimicrobial Resistance Information Bank
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13/02/2007
Breakpoints have been updated to version 6.1, February 2007.
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