1st WHO expert meeting on critically important antibacterial agents for human medicine, Canberra, Australia, 15-18 February 2005
The 1st WHO Expert Meeting on Critically Important Antimicrobials (CIA) for Human Health was held in Canberra, Australia, in 2005. The meeting was organized to follow up a FAO/WHO/OIE consultative process on Non-Human Antimicrobial Usage and Antimicrobial Resistance (1st Workshop on Scientific Assessment, December 2003 in Geneva, and 2nd Workshop on Management Options, March 2004 in Oslo). During this meeting, participants considered the list of all antimicrobial classes used in human medicine and categorized antimicrobials into three groups of critically important, highly important, and important based on the two criteria developed in the meeting.