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WHONET Software
Introduction
WHONET is a Windows-based database software developed for the management of
microbiology laboratory data and the analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results.
Objectives:
- to enhance local use of laboratory data for guiding therapy, assisting infection control, characterizing resistance epidemiology and identifying laboratory testing errors;
- to promote collaboration in surveillance activities through the exchange of data.
Features:
- data entry of clinical and microbiological information from routine diagnostic testing or from research studies,
- a modular configuration, allowing for the customization of the software for clinical, epidemiological, veterinary, molecular, pharmacological and infection control applications.
- analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results with line listings, histograms, scatterplots, and resistance profiles;
- built-in interpretation guidelines for most standardized testing methodologies;
- a data structure compatible with major database, spreadsheet, statistical and word processing softwares.
Latest edition:
The latest edition of WHONET runs on MS Windows (98, 2000/XP) and is multilingual. The languages available in this version are: Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai. WHO is grateful to the many individuals around the world who contributed translations of the software.
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Click here to download the software and manuals
Transferring data from existing computer systems into WHONET- BacLink 2 (Windows version):
The utility, BacLink, facilitates the transfer of microbiology data from existing computer systems to avoid the need to re-enter laboratory results. Baclink can transfer data into WHONET from:
common commercial database and spreadsheet software;
commercial susceptibility test instruments (broth microdilution and disk diffusion readers) hospital and laboratory information systems (with ASCII text files)
Please note that BacLink downloads AND INSTALLS automatically with WHONET.
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