Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections

State of the Art

Building Communication Networks: International Network for the Study and Prevention of Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance (INSPEAR)

Hervé M. Richet* , Jasmine Mohammed*, L. Clifford McDonald†, William R. Jarvis*, and INSPEAR

Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

Main Article

Table 2

Early warning system: local and regional sentinel events

Microorganism	Resistance
Staphylococcus aureus	Methicillin, intermediate susceptibility to glycopeptides
Enterococcus spp.	Vancomycin
Enterobacteriaceae	Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-mediated resistance, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones
Acinetobacter baumannii	Carbapenem
Any bacteria	All antimicrobials available at the regional and local settings

Main Article

¹D. Pittet, D.F. Brown, A.G. Dean, S. Gordon, I.M. Gould, M. Gubina, P. Heczko, M. Pana, J. Schindler, M.J. Struelens, F. Tenover, J. Vuopio-Varkila, A. Widmer, W. Witte.

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