Rapid Detection & Response: State, territory, and local public health partners fight AR in health care, the community, and food.
Funding Amount: $575,919
CDC-funded HAI/AR Programs form a network of health departments that detect, prevent, respond to, and contain HAI/AR threats and promote appropriate use of antibiotics and antifungals. CDC’s AR Lab Network provides nationwide lab capacity to rapidly detect AR and inform local prevention and response activities to stop the spread of antimicrobial-resistant germs and protect people.
Food Safety projects protect communities by rapidly identifying antimicrobial-resistant foodborne bacteria to stop and solve outbreaks and improve prevention.
Funding Amount: $65,832
Houston, TX, uses whole genome sequencing to track local outbreaks of Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Shigella, and Escherichia coli, identifies AR genes, and shares surveillance data with PulseNet. When outbreaks are detected, local CDC-supported epidemiologists respond to stop their spread.
Baylor College of Medicine: Global Expertise & Capacity Enhancements
Funding Amount: $200,000
CDC’s global work to combat AR helps prevent the importation of AR threats into the United States. Experts work in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda to optimize approaches for the diagnosis and prevention of tuberculosis (TB), including drug-resistant TB, in adults and children living with HIV. This work is supported by global TB funds.
| AR | antimicrobial resistance |
| COVID-19 | coronavirus disease 2019 |
| HAI | healthcare-associated infection |
| IPC | infection prevention and control |
| NHSN | National Healthcare Safety Network |
| STI | sexually transmitted infection |
| STD | sexually transmitted disease |