Editorial
Priority actions to fight antibiotic resistance: results of an international meeting
1 UPMC Univ Paris 6 EA1541 Bactériologie-Hygiène 75005 and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, 75013, France
2 Consultant, WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety, 9 rue de la Terrasse, 94000, Créteil, France
3 Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
4 Microbiology Laboratory, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium
5 Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Postbus 9015, 6500 GS, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
6 Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland
7 Bactériologie-Hygiène Faculté de Médecine P. et M. Curie, 91 Bd de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2012, 1:17 doi:10.1186/2047-2994-1-17
Published: 3 May 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Over 70 international experts in medicine, infectious diseases, microbiology and epidemiology (see list in Additional file 1: Annex 1), coming from 33 countries, met from June 27–29 June 2011 in Annecy (France) for the third edition of the World HAI Forum on healthcare-associated infections. The aim of this meeting was to release a global call to action to fight antibiotic resistance. While most meetings focus on scientific developments retrospectively in an academic format, World HAI Forums, which are held every two years, gives participating experts a chance to do prospective analysis of subjects that are not usually discussed [1]. A large part of the time is devoted to sharing best practices, successes and failures in the fight against health care associated infections and resistant bacteria, as a basis for building effective action plans.
