Press Releases Highlighting Antimicrobial Resistance
Media Releases
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2023
- Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities – MAR 2023
- Black and Hispanic Patients on Dialysis Have Higher Rates of Staph Bloodstream Infection – JAN 2023
2022
2020 & 2021
- CDC Launches Two Global Networks, Awards $22 Million to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases – DEC 2021
- CDC to Invest $2.1 Billion to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers from COVID-19 and Future Infectious Diseases – SEPT 2021
- Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella Typhi Infections Among U.S. Residents Without International Travel – FEB 2021
- Detection of Ciprofloxacin-resistant, β-lactamase-producing Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup Y Isolates, United States, 2019–2020 – JUN 2020
2019
- CDC Investigation Notice – Outbreak of Multidrug – Resistant Campylobacter Infections Linked to Pet Store – DEC 2019
- More People in the United States Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated – NOV 2019
- United States Gathers 350 Commitments to Combat Antibiotic Resistance, Action Must Continue – SEPT 2019
- Deadly Staph Infections Still Threaten the U.S. – MAR 2019
2018
- U.S. Challenges World to Intensify Global Fight against Antibiotic Resistance – SEPT 2018
- New CDC analysis shows steep and sustained increases in STDs in recent years – AUG 2018
- CDC Recommendations for Managing and Reporting Shigella Infections with Possible Reduced Susceptibility to Ciprofloxacin – JUN 2018 HAN
- Germs with Unusual Antibiotic Resistance Widespread in U.S. – APR 2018
- TB Continues to Decline in the U.S., but Progress Toward Elimination is Slowing – MAR 2018
- Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: CDC Tool Maps Progress in Every State, but Still More to be Done – JAN 2018
2017
- CDC Encourages Safe Antibiotic Prescribing and Use – NOV 2017
- CDC Urges Early Recognition, Prompt Treatment of Sepsis – AUG 2017
- CDC Invests More than $200 Million to Help States Respond to Infectious Disease Threats – AUG 2017
- Study on Drug-resistant TB Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases – MAY 2017
2016
- First cases of Candida auris Reported in U.S. – NOV 2016
- CDC Funds 34 Innovative Projects to Combat Antibiotic Resistance – OCT 2016
- Genetic Data on Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Infections – AUG 2016
- CDC Funding Accelerates Antibiotic Resistance Efforts – JUL 2016
- Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Gonorrhea Treatment – JUL 2016
- CDC Awards $26 Million to Academic Medical Centers, Drives Innovation to Protect Patients – JUN 2016
- Discovery of First mcr-1 Gene in coli Bacteria found in a Human in U.S. – MAY 2016
- Superbugs Threaten Hospital Patients – MAR 2016