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Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Health Care Facilities. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017.

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Appendix 1External experts and WHO staff involved in preparation of the guidelines

WHO Guidelines Development Group

African Region

  • Shaheen Mehtar
    Infection Control Africa Network
    Stellenbosch, South Africa
    Babacar Ndoye
    Infection Control Africa Network
    Dakar, Senegal
  • Folasade Ogunsola
    Provost, College of Medicine
    University of Lagos
    Lagos, Nigeria

Region of the Americas

  • Neil Gupta
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Fernando Otaíza
    Ministry of Health
    Santiago, Chile
  • Nalini Singh
    Children’s National Medical Center and George
    Washington University
    Washington, DC, USA

South-East Asia Region

  • Kushlani Jayatilleke
    Sri Jayewardenapura General Hospital
    Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte, Sri Lanka
  • Sharmila Sengupta
    Medanta - The Medicity Hospital
    Gurugram, India
  • Akeau Unahalekhaka
    Faculty of Nursing
    Chiang Mai University
    Chiang Mai, Thailand

European Region

  • George L. Daikos
    Laikon and Attikon Hospitals
    Athens, Greece
  • Petra Gastmeier
    Charité Universitätsmedizin
    Berlin, Germany
  • Anna-Pelagia Magiorakos
    European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • Maria Luisa Moro
    Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale
    Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  • Pierre Parneix
    Centre de Coordination de Lutte contre les Infections
    Nosocomiales Sud-Ouest [South-West France Health
    Care-Associated Infection Control Centre] and
    Société Française d’Hygiène
    Hôpital Pellegrin
    Bordeaux, France
  • Mitchell J. Schwaber
    National Center for Infection Control of the Israel
    Ministry of Health and Sackler Faculty of Medicine
    Tel Aviv University
    Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Evelina Tacconelli
    University Hospital Tübingen
    Tübingen, Germany

Eastern Mediterranean Region

  • Maha Talaat
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global
    Disease Detection Programme
    Cairo, Egypt

Western Pacific Region

  • Ben Howden
    The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Austin
    Health Melbourne, Australia
  • Bijie Hu
    Chinese Infection Control Association
    Beijing, China
  • Marimuthu Kalisvar
    Tan Tock Seng Hospital and National University of Singapore
    Novena, Singapore
  • Wing-Hong Seto
    WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease
    Epidemiology and Control/University of Hong Kong
    Hong Kong SAR, China

Methodologist

  • Matthias Egger
    Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
    University of Bern
    Bern, Switzerland

WHO Steering Group

  • Benedetta Allegranzi
    Department of Service Delivery and Safety
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Sergey Eremin
    Antimicrobial Resistance Secretariat
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Bruce Gordon
    Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Rana Hajjeh
    WHO Regional Office for the Eastern
    Mediterranean
    Cairo, Egypt
  • Valeska Stempliuk
    WHO Regional Office for the Americas
    Washington, DC, USA
  • Elizabeth Tayler
    Antimicrobial Resistance Secretariat
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland

Systematic Reviews Expert Group

  • Mohamed Abbas
    Geneva University Hospitals/WHO Collaborating
    Centre on Patient Safety
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Tomas John Allen
    Library and Information Networks for Knowledge
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Stephan Harbarth
    Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of
    Medicine/WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Daniela Pires
    Geneva University Hospitals/WHO Collaborating
    Centre on Patient Safety
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Sara Tomczyk
    Department of Service Delivery and Safety
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Anthony Twyman
    Department of Service Delivery and Safety
    WHO
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Veronica Zanichelli
    Geneva University Hospitals
    Geneva, Switzerland

External Peer Review Group

  • Silvio Brusaferro
    EUNETIPS and Udine University Hospital
    Udine, Italy
  • An Caluwaerts
    Médecins Sans Frontières
    (Doctors Without Borders)
    Brussels, Belgium
  • Garance Fannie Upham
    World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance/WHO
    Patients for Patient Safety Network
    Prévessin-Moëns, France
  • Jean-Christophe Lucet
    Hôpital Bichat – Claude Bernard
    Paris, France
    María Virginia Villegas
    Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento
    e Investigaciones Médicas
    Cali, Colombia
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