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 3

INSPEAR resources

Microbiology	Epidemiology
Bacterial identification	Surveillance system
Antimicrobial resistance testing characterization of mechanisms	Study design and conduct
Typing	Outbreak investigation
Quality control programs	Infection prevention interventions
Proficiency testing	Statistical analysis
Training	Statistical training

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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