Antibiograms vs Micropedia

Antibiograms help healthcare professionals and clinical microbiologists choose the most effective antibiotics to empirically treat infections, based on local susceptibility patterns. Now this valuable information can be available to them on iPhone/iPad mobile devices. With the Antibiograms app, you simply select a bacterium, select a patient group, and you are given the proportion of susceptible organisms for each antibiotic tested in your local laboratory. Features: - download multiple databases and switch between them quickly and easily - customizable fields for each drug or organism, which can be populated with treatment recommendations, drug dosing and costing information, or clinical alerts specific for your hospital/health region - easy to update by emailing new databases to users To learn how to create an Antibiograms database for your laboratory, hospital, or health region, contact our support. You can distribute your database via email, and then open it in this app. DISCLAIMER: This app has been developed for use by qualified healthcare professionals only. Neither the app developer nor the database publisher shall be liable for any loss or damage which may arise from its use. The Antibiograms database pre-loaded in this app is fictitious and for example purposes only. It should not be used for any diagnostic or medical purposes.

Micropedia is a user-friendly, practical guide of clinical microbiology. Broken down into 150+ entries each focused on a specific pathogen or group of pathogens, Micropedia provides a concise review of over 16 different aspects of each pathogen's clinical presentation including modes of transmission, symptomatology, lab and imaging findings, relevant diagnostic testing, treatment, and additional pearls. To provide a comprehensive perspective each entry is sourced from a respected infectious disease textbook, a popularly-used electronic clinical resource, and recently published journal review articles. Additionally contains a search function which allows for search based on common names, eponyms, geography, acuity, vaccinations, and the entire content of each entry. Although it already contains >100 of the most commonly seen pathogens in infectious disease, future updates will continue to add hundreds more.