CDC’s Investments to Combat Antibiotic Resistance Threats Nationwide: Puerto Rico: Fiscal Year 2017

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  $393,711 Funding for AR Activities Fiscal Year 2017
  
  Funding to local health departments:
  
  $393,711 - RAPID DETECTION & RESPONSE to emerging drug-resistant germs is critical to contain the spread of these infections. With 2016 funding, Puerto Rico’s HAI/AR program improved the efficiency of case reporting in 92% of hospitals by assessing needs and providing strategies that strengthened their ability to identify and control HAI/AR threats. An agreement was also reached with 40% of acute care hospitals to participate in “nightmare bacteria” CRE surveillance.
  
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  Puerto-Rico-2017-CDC-AR-Investments.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Antimicrobial Stewardship Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Communicable Diseases, Emerging Cross Infection/prevention & Control Drug Resistance, Microbial Financing, Government Food Safety Gonorrhea/prevention & Control Local Government Public Health State Government

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• Series:
  Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Solutions in Action
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Puerto Rico
• Pages in Document:
  1 numbered page
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c43bbe72a18ba33c9d39796731e139f692182f549c8a7631862a8ed6bab35bd1b79be57d59a7f3e72b50573d88a329c472cb0334885d47df2b0430c8ae42d4e3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51350/cdc_51350_DS1.pdf
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