About Us

The Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA) is a research group dedicated to the study of medical microbiology/infectious diseases issues with special interest in infections caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens as well as antimicrobial usage in Canada. The CARA headquarters are in Winnipeg, Canada, but CARA researchers are based across Canada and include site members who contribute to national antimicrobial resistance surveillance studies including CANWARD, CANWARD Anaerobe, CANICU, NAUTICA, and CROSS.

Role of the website

George G. Zhanel, PhD, FCCP

"This website is the official website of the Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA) which focuses on both community (e.g. respiratory and urinary) and hospital (e.g. ICU, nosocomial, respiratory, urinary, fungal and MDR) infections. The website continues to grow under my leadership. As Editor-in-Chief, I will continue to work with a multidisciplinary group of Canadian experts to improve this unique, multipurpose, multidisciplinary infectious diseases/medical microbiology content based website which addresses Canadian issues in antimicrobial/ antifungal resistance and antimicrobial/ antifungal usage."

Donald E. Low, MD, FRCPC

"The website is serving the needs of Canadian health care providers with respect to providing comprehensive information including antimicrobial and antifungal resistance data, antimicrobial and antifungal usage data, practice principles of antimicrobial therapy and information related to dealing with the challenges of managing infections in the Canadian community and hospital settings."