Scientific Societies

Global Africa Egypt Morocco Senegal Sudafrica Tanzania The Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Mexico Peru Uruguay United States Venezuela Asia Saudi Arabia Korea India Iran Israel Japan Pakistan Russia Singapore Thailand Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Denmark Finland France Greece Germany Ireland Italy Norway Scotland Spain Sweden Switzerland The Netherlands Turkey United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand Global     International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)  http://www.theific.org World Health Organization (WHO)  http://www.who.int/en International Union Of Microbiological Societies (IUMS)  http://www.iums.org Academy for Infection Management  http://www.infectionacademy.org Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA)  http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/ Africa       The SAHARA Network  http://www.sahara.org.za/ Infection Control in the Southern African (ICASA)  http://www.wits.ac.za/ic/icasa/  Egypt Egyptian Society for Infection Control  http://www.ems.org.eg/esic/index.htm  Morocco Société Marocaine des Sciences Médicales (SMSM)  http://www.sante.gov.ma/smsm/index.htm  Senegal Institut Pasteur de Dakar  http://www.pasteur.sn/  South Africa South African Medical Association (SAMA)  http://www.samedical.org/ South African Institute for Medical Research (SAIMR)  http://www.wits.ac.za/ic/index.htm  Tanzania National Institute For Medical research (NIMR)  http://www.nimr.or.tz/   up America       Ibero American Society of Scientific Information  http://www.siicsalud.com/ Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (SLIPE)  http://www.slipe.org/ Pan American Health Organization  http://www.paho.org/default_spa.htm Pan American Society of Infectious Diseases  http://www.abcmedicus.com/articulo/medicos/2/id/2 16/pagina/1/asociacion_panamericana_infectologia. html  Argentina Argentine Association of Infection Control Nurses (ADECI)  http://www.adeci.org.ar/ Argentine Association of Microbiology (AAM)  http://www.aam.org.ar/index.php Argentine Medical Association (AMA)  http://www.ama-med.org.ar/ Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases (SADI)  http://www.sadi.org.ar/ Argentine Society of Pediatrics (SAP)  http://www.sap.org.ar/  Brazil Brazilian Infectology Society  http://www.sbinfecto.org.br/default.asp  Canada Community and Hospital Infection Control Association (CHICA)  http://www.chica.org/ Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AMMI)  http://www.ammi.ca/index.php Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB)  http://www.cseb.ca/en/index.htm Canadian Society of Microbiologist (CSM)  http://www.csm-scm.org/ Health Care Canada  http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/ Agencia de salud pública de Canadá  http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/dpg_e.html#infection  Chile Chilean Society of Infectious Diseases (SOCHINF)  http://www.sochinf.cl/index.htm Chilean Society of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology  http://www.sociedad-iih.cl/  Colombia Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases  http://www.acin.org/  Cuba Cuban National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology  http://www.inhem.sld.cu/  Mexico Mexican Association of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology  http://www.amimc.org.mx/index.html Mexican Association for the Study of Nosocomial Infections  http://www.geocities.com/ameinac/  Peru Peruvian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases  http://www.speit.org.pe/  The United States American Association for the Advancement of Science, ”Triple A-S” (AAAS)  http://www.aaas.org Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)  http://www.apic.org Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  http://www.cdc.gov/ American College of Epidemiology   http://www.acepidemiology2.org American Medical Association (AMA)  http://www.ama-assn.org/ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (CIRAR)  http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/nursing/CIRAR/ Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  http://www.fda.gov/ Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic/ Infection Diseases Society of America (IDSA)  http://www.idsociety.org/ Infectious Disease Association of California (IDAC)  http://www.idac.org/ Infectious Diseases Society of New Jersey (IDSNJ)  http://www.idsnj.org/index.html Michigan Society for Infection Control (MSIC)  http://www.msic-online.org/ Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)  http://www.osha.gov/ The Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society (AFIDS)  http://www.afids.org/home.htm The Florida Infectious Diseases Society  http://www.geocities.com/~fids/ The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)  http://www.phc4.org/ Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)  http://www.aorn.org Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC)  http://www.cbic.org The Communication Center for Infectious Diseases  http://www.idlinks.com/ Hand Hygiene Resource Center  http://www.handhygiene.org Health care, Epidemiology and Infection Control  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic/ Infection Control Today  http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com National Foundation For Infectious Diseases (NFID)  http://www.nfid.org The Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG)  http://www.idsog.org/ National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS)  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/nnis.html Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS)  http://www.pids.org Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP)  http://www.sidp.org Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)  http://www.shea-online.org Infection Control Online  http://www.infectionctrl-online.com/modules/tinyc ontent/index.php?id=10 Wash Up  http://www.washup.org Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip Instituto para la mejora en la salud  http://www.ihi.org/ihi Comisión conjunta de acreditación en el cuidado de la salud.  http://www.jointcommission.org/ The International Healthcare Worker Safety Center  http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/epi net/  Uruguay Uruguayan Society of Infectious Diseases (INFECTO)  http://www.infecto.edu.uy/  Venezuela Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases  http://www.svinfectologia.org/index.html   up Asia       National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE)  http://www.nieicmr.org/ Asian Network for Surveillance of Resistant Pathogens (ANSORP)  http://www.ansorp.org/ Eurasia Health Knowledge Network  http://www.eurasiahealth.org  India Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences  http://www.rmrims.org.in/indexnew.htm Indian Pediatrics  http://www.indianpediatrics.net/ Indian Council of Medical Research  http://icmr.nic.in/ Indian society of Critical Care Medicine  http://www.isccm.org/index.asp Medindia.com  http://www.medindia.net  Iran Academy of Medical Science  http://www.ams.ac.ir/  Israel Israel Society for Microbiology  http://www.ism.org.il/index.asp  Japan National Institute of Infectious Diseases  http://www.nih.go.jp/niid/index-e.html Infectious Disease Surveillance Center  http://idsc.nih.go.jp/index.html  Korea Korean Association of Infection control Nurses (KAICN)  http://www.kaicn.org/ Korean Society of Nosocomial Infection (KOSNIC)  http://www.kosnic.org/ InfectionKorea.org  http://www.infectionkorea.org/index.html The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases (KSID)  http://www.ksid.or.kr/ The Microbiological Society of Korea (MSK)  http://www.msk.or.kr  Pakistan Infection Control Society Pakistan (ICSP)  http://www.infectioncontrolsociety.org  Russia Infectology and Epidemiology in Russia  http://www.epid.ru/ First Internet Center of Distance Education on Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in Russia  http://www.antibiotic.ru/en/re/ Russian Society of Microbiology  http://www.microbiology.ru/  Saudi Arabia King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre  http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/  Singapore Infection Control Association (ICAS)  http://www.icas.org.sg/  Thailand Medical Association of Thailand  http://www.medassocthai.org/index.php Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of Thailand (PIDST)  http://www.kenes.com/wspid/links.asp   up Europe       ARMed Antibiotic resistance, surveillance, and Control in the Mediterranean Region  http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v11n07/1107-22 6.asp Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)  http://www.fems-microbiology.org European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECSMID)  http://www.escmid.org/sites/index.aspx European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)  http://www.espid.org European Epidemiology Federation  http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/euro_Contents.htm European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA)  http://www.eorna.eu/ Hospital In Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS)  http://helics.univ-lyon1.fr Sistema Europeo de Vigilancia de Resistencia Antimicrobiana (EARSS)  http://www.earss.rivm.nl The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)  http://ecdc.europa.eu/  Austria Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (OGHMP)  http://www.oeghmp.at Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (OGHMP)  http://www.oeghmp.at/  Belgium Belgium Association of Hospital Hygiene  http://www.iph.fgov.be/epidemio/epien/index7.htm Belgium Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SBIMC)  http://www.sbimc.org/  Bulgaria Bulgarian Association for Prevention and Infection Control  http://www.bulnoso.com/  Croatia Croatian National Institute of Public Health  http://www.hzjz.hr/epocetna.htm Croatian Society of Infectious Diseases  http://www.bfm.hr/  Denmark Danish Medical Association  http://www.laeger.dk/portal/page/portal/LAEGERDK/ LAEGER_DK Dansk Epidemiologisk Selskab (DES)   http://www.dansk-epidemiologisk-selskab.dk/  Finland Finnish Society for Hospital Infection Control  http://www.terveysportti.fi/kotisivut/sivut.koti? p_sivusto=1334 Finnish Epidemiological Society (FINEPI)  http://www.finepi.org/ Finnish Society for Study of Infectious Diseases  http://www.fimnet.fi/ity/meet.htm  France Association of French-Speaking Epidemiologists  http://adelf.isped.u-bordeaux2.fr/ Centre De Coordination De La Lutte Contre Les Infections Nosocomiales  http://www.cclin-est.org/ Centre de Coordination de la Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales du Sud Est  http://cclin-sudest.univ-lyon1.fr/ Centre de Coordination de la Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales du Sud Ouest  http://www.cclin-sudouest.com/ Les Comités De Lutte Contre Les Infections Nosocomiales (CLIN) Du Ouest  http://www.cclinouest.com/ France Infectieux  http://www.france-infectieux.org/ French Society for Microbiology  http://www.sfm.asso.fr/ The French Infectious Diseases Society (SPILF)  http://www.sfhh.net/ Réseau Régional d'Hygiène Hospitalière de Basse-Normandie  http://www.rrhbn.org/ Société Française D'hygiène Hospitalière (SFHH)  http://www.sfhh.net/ Association Regionale Des Comites De Lutte Contre Les Infections Nosocomiales  http://www.caducee.net/DossierSpecialises/infecti on/nosocomiales.asp  Geece Greek Society for Microbiology  http://www.mednet.gr/greek/soc/eme/eme.htm Greek Society for the Control of Nosocomial Infections and Healthcare Quality Assurance  http://www.infection.gr/  Germany Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Epidemiologie  http://www.gmds.de/publikationen/publikation_einz eln.php?we_objectID=725 Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene  http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/imh/live/index_e n.html Robert Koch Institute  http://www.rki.de/INDEX.HTM Nationales Referenzzentrum für Surveillance von nosokomialen Infektionen  http://www.nrz-hygiene.de/ Vereinigung für allgemeine und angewandte Mikrobiologie  http://www.vaam.uni-halle.de/ German Association for Hospital Hygiene (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene - DGKH)  http://www.dgkh.de German Association for Pediatric Infectology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie)  http://www.dgpi.de/ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie  http://www.dghm.org/  Ireland Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre- Northern Ireland (CDSCNI)  http://www.cdscni.org.uk/ National Disease Surveillance Centre (NDSC)  http://www.ndsc.ie/  Italy Italian Association of Clinical Microbiology (AMCLI)  http://www.amcli.it/1Mail/2Lavoro/DbVisibile/Home .asp Association for the Prevention and Reseach of Infections (APSI)  http://www.apsi.it/dbs/index.asp Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases from the Health Superior Institute (ISS)  http://www.simi.iss.it/ Italian Society of Virology (SIV)  http://www.siv-virologia.it/ Multidisciplinary Italian Society for the Prevention of Nosocomial (SIMPIOS)  http://www.simpios.org/ Italian society for Health Care Quality (SIQuAS-VRQ)  http://www.siquas.it/index.htm  Norway Norwegian Association of Epidemiology (NOFE)  http://www.medisin.ntnu.no/ism/nofe/enofe.htm  Scotland Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH)  http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ Scottish Microbiology Association (SMA)  http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/scieh.asp  Spain Andalusia Society of Infectious Diseases (SAEI)  http://www.saei.org/ Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEMICRO)  http://www.semicro.es/ Center of Biological Research (CIB)  http://www.cib.csic.es/ Society of Infectious Diseases of Andalusia (SAEI)  http://www.saei.org/  Sweden Swedish Society of Medical Microbiology  http://www.mikrobiologi.net/organization/organiza tion.php?id=2  Switzerland Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases  http://www.sginf.ch/ Swiss Society for Microbiology (SSM)  http://www.swissmicrobiology.ch/default.htm  The Netherlands Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Medische Microbiologie (NVMM)  http://www.nvmm.nl/index.htm Netherlands Epidemiological Society  http://www.epidemiologie.nl/infoeng.htm Dutch Society of Infection Prevention and Control in the health care setting (VHIG)  http://www.vhig.nl/ Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology  http://www.infectieziekten.org/pub/default.asp  Turkey Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology Web  http://www.leblebicioglu.org/ Turkish Society for Microbiology  http://www.tmc-online.org/ Turkish Infection Web Site  http://www.infeksiyon.org/ Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialty Society of Turkey (EKMUD)  http://www.ekmud.org  United Kingdom Health Protection Agency (HPA)  http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/default.htm The Hospital Infection Society (HIS)  http://www.his.org.uk/ Society for Social Medicine  http://www.socsocmed.org.uk/ The International Epidemiological Association  http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/ The Society for Applied Microbiology (SFAM)  http://www.sfam.org.uk/ The Society For General Microbiology (SGM)  http://www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk. The Royal Society of Science  http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/ Infection Control Nurses Association (ICNA)  http://www.icna.co.uk/ The Medical Devices Agency (MDA)  http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_ GET_PAGE&nodeId=5 Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)  http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/acdp Association of Medical Microbiologists (AMM)  http://www.amm.co.uk British Medical Association (BMA)  http://www.bma.org.uk British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)  http://www.bsac.org.uk Health and Safety Executive (HSE)  http://www.hse.gov.uk Infection Prevention Society  http://www.ips.uk.net/ Instituto nacional para la excelencia clínica  http://www.nice.org.uk   up Oceania     up Australasian Epidemiological Association  http://www.health.vic.gov.au/clinicians Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS)  http://www.anzics.com.au/  Australia Australian Academy of Science  http://www.science.org.au/ Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)  http://www.antimicrobial-resistance.com/ Australian Infection Control Association Inc (AICA)  http://www.aica.org.au/docs/home/index.asp Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM)  http://www.theasm.com.au/ Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM)  http://www.theasm.com.au/ Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance VICNISS  http://www.vicniss.org.au/ Infection Control Association NSW Inc (ICA)  http://www.icansw.org.au/ Infection Control Plus (ICP)  http://www.icp.au.com/index.html Infection Control Practitioners Association of Queensland  http://www.icpaq.org/index.shtml NSW Health System  http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/ Queensland Health  http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ Tasmanian Institute of Critical Care (TASICC)  http://www.tasicc.com.au/ The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases  http://www.racp.edu.au/asid/ The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS)  http://www.achs.org.au/display.aspx?PageID=0&Memb erID=0&screenwidth=800# The National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research  http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr/ The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR)  http://www.qimr.edu.au/ Victorian Infection Control Professionals Association (VICPA)  http://www.vicpa.org.au/Default.aspx?c=45&ct=3  New Zealand National Division Of Infection Control Nurses  http://www.infectioncontrol.co.nz/files/home.asp The Royal Society of New Zealand  http://www.rsnz.org/