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What is the AbxGuide?
ISAC in collaboration with Radboud university medical centre (Radboudumc), the Netherlands and the American University of Beirut Medical Centre (AUBMC), Lebanon developed an open access online antimicrobial treatment guideline for global application (ISAC AbxGuide) intended to provide guidance on antibiotic treatment of common infectious diseases in an easy-to-use modular format that can be adapted to different settings. The main aim is to address the gaps causing inappropriate antibiotic use in low-resource settings.
The content is intended to be as much as possible applicable to all settings taking into consideration evidence-based medicine including clinical studies and international guidelines and where possible using pragmatic priority listing between alternative treatment options. The gathered evidence of directed treatment advice for the major bacterial infectious diseases and resistance phenotypes will be presented in a free-access online interactive ISAC AbxGuide platform.
Our team
and external reviewers
Prof Heiman Wertheim, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Prof Souha Kanj, American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Hind Kadri, Dr. Sulaiman AL Habib Medical Group, Saudi Arabia
Dr Neda Milevska Kostova, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Teske Schoffelen, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Dr Jaap ten Oever, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Prof Geoffrey Coombs, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia
Prof Anuradha Chowdhary, Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, India
Prof Dale Fisher, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof David Jenkins, Medical Microbiology & Virology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Prof David Lye, National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Prof Andreas Voss, Department of Clinical-Microbiology and Infection Control, University Medical Centre of Groningen, Netherlands
Prof Pierre Tattevin, Pontchaillou University Hospital, France
Dr Jeroen Schouten, Intensive Care Unit, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Prof Patricia Munoz, Servicio de Microbiología Clínica – Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General, Madrid, Spain
Prof Serhat Unal, Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
The AbxGuide is supported by ISAC research grant and Pfizer Inc. independent medical education grant.
How to contribute
The AbxGuide is a living database that grows and improves with new evidence and expertise. We welcome and value contributions and suggestions, as well as corrections of any unintentional omissions you might have noticed. Please send your inputs through our contact page.
The AbxGuide is currently available only in English language, but the platform offers a possibility to expand to other languages as well. If you are interested to help increase the outreach, you can contribute with translations. Please contact us to receive the full dataset and translation instructions.
AbxGuide is easy-to-use open access online database compiling evidence on pathogen-directed antibiotic treatment covering over major pathogens affecting different organs and tissues. More...