American Region, Through laboratory surveillance, showed a growth rate of microorganisms to antimicrobial resistance. Effectiveness of Various medications have been lost in recent years, as Featured Whether strain bacterial resistance to drugs. In addition, the spread of pathogens TB infection or other mechanisms, rover to continue the Risk for Inpatient.
For these Containing the threat to progress in infection control products are very important products for the system has a microbiology laboratory-based surveillance with guaranteed quality, and ability to conduct molecular epidemiology studies, to help understand the origin and epidemiology of resistant organisms quickly and accurately.
Terms of resources that the country club is expected to form a surveillance network of resistors to enhance their capacity to detect antimicrobial resistance, and with that information, a consensus decision about the treatment of infectious diseases at the regional and national level about the use of antibiotics and bacteriological laboratory quality assurance policy.
With the Spanish Cooperation project implemented the following products:
* Annual Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance (2010).
* Development of norms, standards and guidelines to strengthen the management of infectious diseases and laboratory performance.
* Assessment of the status of infection prevention and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in selected countries.
* Activities and strategies to prevent infection and resistance surveillance implemented at country level.
The target countries for this project are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela . Activities will be coordinated through a group of Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, part of the Warning, these Regulations and Response System and Epidemic Disease (IR), Occupational Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control (HSD).
