Detect and protect against antibiotic resistance : CDC’s initiative to outsmart this threat

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  It’s been called public health’s ticking time bomb. ; Antibiotic resistance—when bacteria don’t respond to the drugs designed to kill them—threatens to return us to the time when simple infections were often fatal. ; Today, antibiotic resistance annually causes more than 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths in the United States. ; Tomorrow, if it continues on its current course, could be ; even worse: ; • A simple cut of the finger could lead to a life threatening infection. ; • Common surgical procedures, such as hip and knee replacements, would be far riskier because of the danger of infection. ; • Dialysis patients could develop untreatable bloodstream infections. ; • Life-saving treatments that suppress immune systems, such as chemotherapy and organ transplants, could potentially cause more harm than good. ; We need to outsmart antibiotic resistance—now. The Detect and Protect Against Antibiotic Resistance Initiative (known as the AR Initiative) gives us a good head start. The 2015 President’s Budget requests $30 million annual funding level for 5 years for the AR Initiative—part of a broader CDC strategy to target investment to achieve measureable results in four core areas: ; • Detect and track patterns of antibiotic resistance. ; • Respond to outbreaks involving antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ; • Prevent infections from occurring and resistant bacteria from spreading. ; • Discover new antibiotics and new diagnostic tests for resistant bacteria. ; CS246167
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• Subjects:
  • Cross Infection/prevention & control
  • Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Infection Control
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Corporate as Subject:
  Detect and Protect Against Antibiotic Resistance Initiative
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27771/cdc_27771_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 688.44 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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