Rapid Detection & Response: State, territory, and local public health partners fight AR in health care, the community, and food.
Funding Amount: $936,588
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: $397,630
New Mexico 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. New Mexico conducts active, population-based surveillance for foodborne diseases through CDC’s Emerging Infections Program.
Fungal Disease projects improve our ability to track resistance to antifungals and stop it from spreading.
Funding Amount: $57,267
New Mexico conducts surveillance to identify fungal diseases, monitor for new and emerging AR, and implement strategies to prevent the spread of AR in high-risk areas. New Mexico conducts population-based surveillance for Candida bloodstream infections through CDC's Emerging Infections Program.
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: $13,000
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.
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) HAI component helps answer critical questions about emerging HAI threats, advanced infection tracking methods, and AR in the United States.
Funding Amount: $1,178,982
The New Mexico EIP performs population-based surveillance for candidemia, Clostridioides difficile, invasive Staphylococcus aureus, and resistant gram-negative bacteria. They also conduct HAI and antimicrobial use prevalence surveys and participate in a surveillance pilot for Escherichia coli infections to help support vaccine evaluation.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/hai/eip
Emerging Infections Program (EIP) sites improve public health by conducting population-based surveillance and research activities that inform policy and public health practice.
Funding Amount: $50,000
EIP Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) is an active laboratory- and population-based surveillance system for invasive bacterial pathogens of public health importance. ABCs provides an infrastructure for further public health research, which may include special studies to identify disease risk factors, evaluate vaccine efficacy, and monitor the effectiveness of prevention policies.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/abcs
| 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 |