About CDC’s Progress

Prevention

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

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.

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Detection, Response & Containment

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

AR Lab Network has detected about 29,000 resistant germs that required investigation

~$815million distributed to 59 state, territorial, and local health departments

Supporting 500+ local AR experts

Projects in the United States and more than 60 countries abroad