Bacteraemia references

HPA Health Protection Report weekly publications on bacteraemia are listed under the voluntary surveillance and mandatory surveillance pages.

The HPA in collaboration with the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) conducts sentinel surveillance of antibiotic susceptibility in bacteraemia cases. The publications resulting from this study can be found at the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Resistance Surveillance Project website.

Other publications

• Johnson AP, et al. Surveillance and epidemiology of MRSA bacteraemia in the UK. [external link] J Antimicrob Chemother. 2005 Sep; 56(3):455-62.
• "National glycopeptide-resistant enterococcal bacteraemia surveillance working group, report to Department of Health. August 2004" (PDF, 455 KB)
  
   
• Coello R, et al. Device-related sources of bacteraemia in English hospitals - opportunities for the prevention of hospital-acquired bacteraemia.  [external link] J. Hosp. Infect. 2003 53 : 46-57.
• "NINSS. Surveillance of Hospital-acquired Bacteraemia in English Hospitals, 1997-2002" (PDF, 324 KB)
  
  
• Duckworth G, et al. Surveillance for S. aureus bacteraemias is compulsory. [external link] BMJ 2002;324:240-1.
• PHLS. Ochrobactrum anthropi pseudobacteraemias. [external link] Commun Dis Rep CDR Wkly [serial online]; 2002 Nov; 11(46).