General Interest Information CDC National Prevention Information Network CDC Vaccine Information Sheets Encephalitis Global Group A Streptococcal Infection, NIAID Fact Sheet Group B Strep Association (GBSA) Health Watch by Medscape Healthtouch – Strep Throat & Other Group A Streptococcal Infections Influenza Information Television Network – Medical Report Medline Plus Health Information Site Meningitis Research Foundation of Canada Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) Pneumo.com Toronto General Hospital HIV Clinic Whipples Disease Vaccine Education Center: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professional Organizations American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Association in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc. (APIC) Australian Infection Control Association – (AICA) Canadian Infections Disease Society (CIDS) Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMIS) Community and Hospital Infection Control Association - Canada(CHICA-Canada) Infectious Disease Society of America - (IDSA) Ontario Society of Medical Technologists (OSMT) The Hospital Infection Society The Society for General Microbiology
Public Health and Government Agencies Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario (APHEO) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Canada, Health Protection Branch - LCDC National Centre for Streptococcus (NCS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) PHLOnline Public Health Laboratory Service – UIC World Health Organization
Disease Statistics CDC - HIV-AIDS Slides-Graphics AIDS Surveillance- General Epidemiology - L178 slide series (through 1998) Disease Surveillance On-Line – LCDC – Health Canada-Surveillance des maladies en direct - LLCM – Santé Canada Distribution of Group A Serotypes and Streptococcal (GAS) Pyrogenic Exotoxin Gene Types Isolated from Blood in Canada FluWatch Statistics Canada
Surveillance Systems/Networks The Alexander Project CAUSE: Careful Antibiotic Use to Prevent Resistance CSR: Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, Antimicrobial resistance Eurosurveillance Weekly Libra Initiative ROAR: Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network TSN: The Surveillance Network WARN: World Antibiotic Resistance Network WHO: Antimicrobial Resistance Information Bank World Health Organization, World Anthrax Data Site
Antimicrobial Utilization Antibiotic Usage Guide Appropriate Use of Antibiotics for URIs in Children Part I. Otitis Media and Acute Sinusitis – October 1, 1998 – American Academy of Family Physicians APUA: Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics Do Bugs Need Drugs The Partners for Appropriate Anti-infective Community Therapy (PAACT) Program
Microbiology Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology-Univ. of Toronto Digital Learnng Center for Microbial Ecology, The Microbe Zoo Evaluation of E Test for Detection of Beta Lactam Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae Infectious Disease WebLink Introduction To Clinical Microbiology, University of Texas Quality Management program - Laboratory Services, Ontario MSDS For Infectious Agents NCCLS Homepage University of British Columbia, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Host Defense Research (CMDR)
Infection Control Resources Health Canada – Infection Control Guidelines Health Canada Disease Prevention & Control Guidelines Infection Control, University Health Network Kingston General Hospital Infection Control CDC – Hospital Infections Program Stanford ID Teaching Modules
Infectious Diseases Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Rounds Daily Virology News -- Free Health Canada Infectious Diseases News Brief ID Links Infectious Diseases web links Karolinska Institute Links of interest in Infectology ProMED Ket-On-Line All the Virology on the WWW
Clinical Guidelines/Recommendations Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease Recommendations of the ACIP American Academy of Pediatrics, Revised guidelines for prevention of early-onset group B streptococcal (GBS) infection Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Guidelines to the Management of Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (AROs) in Home Health Antibiotic Resistant Organisms: Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines
Epidemiology Resources The World-Wide Web Virtual Library Epidemiology – University of California, San Francisco UCLA Department of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Software Qualitative Research: An Inventory of Methods Courses and Faculty Resource at the University of Toronto
Research Institutes/Research Funding Sources Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM) GrantsNet Institute Pasteur Loeb Health Research Institute National Foundation for Infectious Diseases National Health Research & Development Program (NHRDP) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Home Page (NIAID), National Institutes of Health Networks of Centres of Excellence Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
Reference Resources Email address locator GRANTSNet Grateful Med – Search engine for National Library of Medicine Instructions for authors LOCATORplus, National Library of Medicine Medi-Fax Web Directory of Canadian Hospitals Pubmed – access to National Library of Medicine Scientific Research Resources
Local Area Universities / Hospitals University of Toronto Centennial College Hospital for Sick Children Michener Institute Mount Sinai Hospital Ryerson Polytechnic University Seneca College St. Michael’s Hospital Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center University Health Network York University
Journals AIDS AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) Annals of Internal Medicine Annual Reviews of Microbiology Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotheraphy ASM News Biotechniques British Medical Journal Canadian Communicable Disease Report Canadian Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (CJID) Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology Clinical Infectious Diseases Clinical Microbiology Reviews Current Oncology Emerging Infectious Diseases Hollis Infection and Immunity Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Journal of Bacteriology Journal of Clinical Investigations Journal of Clinical Microbiology Journal of Hospital Infection Journal of Immunology Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal of Medical Microbiology Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Journal of Virology Lancet Molecular and Cellular Biology Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Nature Nature Medicine New England Journal of Medicine Science Magazine
Travel Health Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Travelers' Health Health Canada: Lab Centre for Disease Control - Travel Medicine Program International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers International Society of Travel Medicine International Society for Infectious Diseases Medical College of Wisconsin HealthLINK: Travel Medicine U.S. State Department: Travel Warnings
Immunization Canadian Immunization Awareness Program Health Canada - Health Promotion Online The Canadian Health Network Canadian Pediatric Society The National Influenza Immunization Campaign The Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) Institute for Vaccine Safety Quackwatch The Immunization Action Coalition The Vaccine Page The World Health Organization
Online Education Sites & Resources TrainingFinder.org - the Public Health Foundation's free distance learning clearinghouse EXCITE Epidemiology Teaching Site Epidemic: The Museum of Modern History Exhibit Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics On Demand Webcasts CDC Responds: Coping with Bioterrorism - The Role of the Laboratorian CDC Addresses the Infectious Disease Society of America: Anthrax CDC Responds: Bioterrorism and the Healthcare Epidemiology / Infection Control Team Anthrax: What Every Clinician Should Know Anthrax: What Every Clinician Should Know Part II Recognition and Management of Bioterrorism Agents
