Useful links

• APUA: The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics is a non-profit, international organization solely dedicated to preserving the power of antibiotics.
  
  
• ROAR: The ROAR II Project, funded by the NIAID and coordinated by APUA, supports research proposals that address the hypotheses that commensal organisms serve as reservoirs for the emergence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes in disease-associated bacteria, and that commensal bacteria can donate antibiotic resistance elements to disease-associated bacteria.
  
  
• CDC site on antibiotic resistance
  
  
• NRSA: The Network on Antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
  
  
• Literature from the past decade to spot trends in antibiotic-resistance research.
  
  
• EARSS: An international network of national surveillance systems which aims to aggregate comparable and reliable antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes in Europe.
  
  
• Antibiotic guide: A downloadable antibiotic guide at Johnshopkins
  
  
• VRSA database
  
  
• Journal of antibiotics: A database that contains substances which have been first reported in the Journal of Antibiotics.
  
  
• Resistance web: A site to track trends in bacterial resistance to utilization trends of prescription antibiotics