The EU-US Summit Declaration agreed on 3 November 2009 called for the establishment of "a transatlantic task force on urgent antimicrobial resistance issues focused on appropriate therapeutic use of antimicrobial drugs in the medical and veterinary communities, prevention of both healthcare- and community-associated drug-resistant infections, and strategies for improving the pipeline of new antimicrobial drugs, which could be better addressed by intensified cooperation between us".

ARMed is an international research project investigating antimicrobial resistance in a number of Mediterranean countries through the collection of comparable and validated antimicrobial resistance data, as well as information about antibiotic consumption patterns and infection control initiatives.

The Antimicrobial Resistance page of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with a public health action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance

Web site of the European Commission Directorate General for 'Health and Consumers' (DG SANCO)

ESAC scientific evaluation on the use of antimicrobial agents in human therapy

Euro DURG is an official scientific non-profit organization. The Euro DURG has as its mission the promotion of drug utilisation research as a means of improving use of drugs by providing an international forum for communication and cooperation between people interested in drug utilisation research.

International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) provides the essential tools, education materials and communication that unite the existing Infection Control societies and foster development of Infection Control organizations where they are needed.

Pnc EURO is a European Union funded comprehensive epidemiologal study on Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pnc) in four European countries. Information of the actual disease burden will allow appropriate vaccination programmes to be planned.

An international external quality assessment scheme for clinical microbiology (UK Neqas)

WHONET is a Window-based database software developed for the management of microbiology laboratory data and the analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results.