AR Solutions in Action - Fiscal Year 2023

CDC's Investments to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance Threats

SUMMARY INFORMATION

Jurisdiction: Los Angeles County, CA
Funding for AR Activities Fiscal Year 2023: $1,470,053

FUNDING TO HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

Rapid Detection & Response: State, territory, and local public health partners fight AR in health care, the community, and food.
Funding Amount: $1,249,613
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: $205,440
Los Angeles County, CA, 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.

Drug-resistant Gonorrhea Detect & Respond Program works with state and local epidemiology and laboratory partners to test for and quickly respond to resistant gonorrhea to stop its spread in high-risk communities. Only one recommended treatment option remains for gonorrhea and resistance to other antibiotics continues to grow.
Funding Amount: $15,000
The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) informs national treatment guidelines for gonorrhea by monitoring how well antibiotics work on laboratory samples collected from sentinel STD clinics, which often are the first to detect the threat. Select STD clinics also enhance surveillance by collecting additional gonococcal isolates from women and from extragenital sites. This work is jointly supported by CDC STI and AR funds.

Additional Notes

The AR Investment Map includes data from CDC's largest funding categories for AR. It represents extramural funding that supports AR activities from multiple funding lines in CDC’s annual appropriations. Some work received full or partial funding from one-time supplemental appropriations. See the fiscal year 2023 AR Investment Map Supplemental Funding Fact Sheet for more information.

Acronyms

ARantimicrobial resistance
COVID-19coronavirus disease 2019
HAIhealthcare-associated infection
IPCinfection prevention and control
NHSNNational Healthcare Safety Network
STIsexually transmitted infection
STDsexually transmitted disease
CDC provides critical support in the U.S. and abroad to protect people from antimicrobial resistance.

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