Antibiotic resistance : the global threat

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  GLOBAL ACTION
  
  1. Improve Laboratory Capacity: Countries need medical labs to identify bacteria and choose the right drugs to treat them. When people get antibiotics without this testing, they:
  
  • Often get treatment that doesn’t help
  
  • Develop and spread resistant bacteria
  
  • Increase their risk for future resistant infections
  
  2. Develop National Tracking Programs: Countries need the infrastructure to collect resistance data and report results globally. This information is necessary to:
  
  • Target and measure prevention efforts
  
  • Drive policies that help stop spread
  
  3. Implement Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: To ensure antibiotics are here when we need them, they must be prescribed and taken correctly now.
  
  4. Expand Infection Control Programs: Improving infection control practices in healthcare settings is critical to prevent spread of antibiotic resistant germs.
  
  CDC’s proposed Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative will:
  
  1. Allow standardized tracking of antibiotic resistance internationally
  
  2. Prevent antibiotic resistance
  
  3. Improve antibiotic prescribing and use
  
  4. Boost communication of antibiotic resistance threats
  
  CS254505A
  
  
• Subjects:
  Antimicrobial Stewardship Drug Resistance, Bacterial Drug Resistance, Microbial Global Health
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bdde0098f186b7db9a70d88490581a42ffaf464455c440e1606efbe58100b4cb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31340/cdc_31340_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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