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Selected Resources on Antibiotic Resistance

December 21st, 2002 by UI Libraries

Antibiotic resistance has become a topic of increasing interest in the last few years. Below is a selected list of library and other Web resources in this area:

Medline search on "Drug Resistance, Microbial"

MD Consult
Search on "drug resistance, microbial" to retrieve reference books, journal articles, and practice guidelines

UpToDate
Search on "antimicrobial resistance" for concise clinical information.

Hardin MD: Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/resistance.html
See the article below for more information about Hardin MD.

CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases: Antimicrobial Resistance
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/
Includes general information plus technical information for health professionals.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/anti_resist.html

World Health Organization: Anti-infective Drug Resistance
http://www.who.int/emc/amr.html
Includes the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/
The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics is a non-profit, international organization solely dedicated to preserving the power of antibiotics.

Patient Information:
MEDLINEplus: Antibiotics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/antibiotics.html

Antibiotic Resistance and Hardin MD

December 21st, 2002 by UI Libraries

The increasing interest in this subject is shown by our experience in launching a new antibiotic resistance page in Hardin MD. An important factor in choosing subjects for Hardin MD is the likelihood that they will do well in search engines, such as Google. Generally the subjects that do best are ones with a lot of people searching for the subject and a relatively small number of pages on the subject. Antibiotic resistance looked like it would not be a good subject because while it did have many people searching for it, it also had a large number of pages on the Web to compete against.

Our prediction that antibiotic resistance would not do well in search engines has proven accurate. Despite this, however, the page has proven popular anyway because it has gotten so much internal traffic from other Hardin MD pages. It is unusual for a subject to have enough interest from a variety of disciplines that internal links can create a high volume of traffic. But the antibiotic resistance page has gotten significant links from a wide variety of Hardin MD pages, including AIDS, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, yeast infection, drug information, tuberculosis, Staph infection, pneumonia, and malaria.

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