About CDC’s Progress
Prevention
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Surveillance & Science:
More effective tracking and prevention of healthcare-associated infections, foodborne illness, and gonorrhea (a sexually transmitted infection).
Improved Antibiotic & Antifungal Use:
Improving antibiotic and antifungal use to ensure these drugs are available and work to protect people from life-threatening infections.
Innovation
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Insights for Practice:
Innovations and collaborations with academic and healthcare partners to identify and implement new ways to prevent antimicrobial-resistant infections and their spread in the U.S. and abroad.
Research & Development:
Sharing isolates that inform development of new drugs and diagnostics, and making CDC's sequencing data from antimicrobial-resistant pathogens public to spur innovation in the industry.
Download now: CDC is Innovating to Fight AR
Download now: CDC is Innovating to Fight AR
Detection, Response & Containment
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Laboratory & Diagnostics:
Gold-standard lab capacity offered to all U.S. state and regional labs through CDC’s AR Laboratory Network, and on-the-ground lab expertise and assistance in some countries abroad.
Epidemiology Capacity for Response:
Increased capacity in state, territorial, and local health departments and some countries for rapid detection and faster response to outbreaks and emerging resistance related to healthcare-associated infections, foodborne bacteria, and gonorrhea (a sexually transmitted infection)—to contain and control spread.
Highlights since 2016
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Whole genome sequencing on more than 360,000 germ samples
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AR Lab Network has detected about 29,000 resistant germs that required investigation
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~$815million distributed to 59 state, territorial, and local health departments
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Supporting 500+ local AR experts
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Projects in the United States and more than 60 countries abroad