Hindawi Publishing Corporation Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology Volume 2007, Article ID 29232, 3 pages doi:10.1155/2007/29232 Resource Review World Wide Web Resources on Obstetrical and Gynecological Infections Stavros Athanasiou,1, 2 Eleni Pitsouni,1 Christos Iavazzo,1 Eirinaios M. Karamanis,1 and Matthew E. Falagas1, 3 1 Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences, 9 Neapoleos Street, 15123 Marousi, Athens, Greece 2 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece 3 Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 20110, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Matthew E. Falagas, m.falagas@aibs.gr Received 29 June 2007; Accepted 9 July 2007 Modern information and communications technology has provided medical students and practitioners around the world with a new, valuable, and easy-to-use way to retrieve potentially useful information. Using previously described by our research group methodology, we generated a list of 50 Internet resources in the ﬁeld of obstetrical and gynecological infections. We believe that the availability of such a list will help in the education of students and clinicians interested in obstetrical and gynecological infections. Copyright © 2007 Stavros Athanasiou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nowadays the need for obtaining updated medical informa- tion is essential to doctors in practice. The fast progress in medical science is a fact that cannot be ignored. This state- ment also applies to the ﬁeld of infectious diseases, includ- ing obstetrical and gynecological infections. For example, the recent introduction of the vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) represents a major advance in the battle against cervical cancer. The interest on obstetrical infections is of paramount importance because of the eﬀects such infections have on pregnant women as well as on fetuses and newborns. Therefore, consultation of appropriate educational resources on diagnostic tests, treatment, and management options, in general, on obstetrical and gynecological infections is useful to practitioners, especially obstetricians and gynecologists. Under these circumstances, the World Wide Web may be seen as a very useful educational tool for practitioners and students. It provides quick and easy access to information of diﬀerent kinds, including medical knowledge. In many oc- casions, information provided by World Wide Web sources is updated frequently (monthly, weekly, or even daily). Al- though, there are, many popular and well-known sites that can provide useful medical information, a signiﬁcant num- ber of them are not widely in use. The purpose of this contribution is to compile a list of World Wide Web sites that include information regarding obstetrical and gynecological infections see Table 1. All of the sites that we included in our list are free-accessed and in En- glish. We did not include in our list of World Wide Web sites well-known worldwide valuable resources such as PubMed. The methodology we used in this paper has been described in previous relevant contributions of our team [1–3]. An eﬀort was made to gather as many sites as possible referring to ob- stetrical and gynecological infections. However, we recognize that some sites that oﬀer valuable information on this issue were overlooked. We think that the list of World Wide Web sites may be found useful by practicing obstetricians and gy- necologists around the world, especially those clinicians with Internet access practicing in developing countries. Table 1: World Wide Web resources on obstetrical and gynecological infections. Website title WHO Website address http://www.who.int/topics/en Comments Links and guidelines for surveillance, pre- vention, of management and a treatment of ob/gyn infections