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Raise Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance and Responsible Use
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (formerly Get Smart Week) is an annual observance that gives participating organizations an opportunity to raise awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance.
Share this CDC and Food Safety Newsletter with your networks to help raise awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of preserving the power of antibiotics for people and animals.
Join the conversation by using #USAAW17 this week and #AntibioticResistance during the global twitter chat on Thursday, November 16. CDC will participate from 1-3 p. m. ET.
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New Campaign – Be Antibiotics Aware
CDC’s new Be Antibiotics Aware initiative raises awareness about the importance of appropriate antibiotic prescribing and use to prevent antibiotic resistance. CDC has resources available for healthcare professionals and consumers around antibiotic use in human medicine. Learn more about Be Antibiotics Aware.
New Video – Antibiotic Resistance and Food
More than 400,000 Americans get sick every year from antibiotic-resistant germs from food, according to CDC estimates. People who are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria may experience more severe illness, including hospitalization and death, because these infections can be harder to treat.
Watch this video to learn more about antibiotic resistance and food.
Read our feature to learn how antibiotic resistant germs can spread through food, what CDC is doing, and how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from these types of infections.
Tracking Trends in Resistance
The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) helps protect public health by providing information about emerging resistance threats, how resistance spreads, and how resistant infections differ from other infections.
Watch this video to learn more about CDC’s role in NARMS, how NARMS has made a difference over the past 20 years, and how new technologies are changing the way we identify and track resistance.
New Tool for Tracking Resistance
This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration launched an interactive research tool called Resistome Tracker, one of the first publicly available tools to provide displays of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria. Resistome Tracker’s interactive interface allows users to customize visualizations by antibiotic drug class, compare resistance genes across different sources, identify new resistance genes, and map selected resistance genes to geographic region. Currently, Resistome Tracker is focused on antibiotic resistance genes in Salmonella.
You can also view NARMS data through these interactive data tools:
- NARMS Now: Integrated Data - Explore antimicrobial resistance patterns in bacteria isolated from people, animals, and meats purchased from grocery stores.
- NARMS Now: Human Data - See how antibiotic resistance for four bacteria transmitted commonly through food has changed over the past two decades.
Use Antibiotics Wisely in Pets, Too!
Antibiotics are necessary to protect the health of people and animals, including pets. Use antibiotics only when needed, and follow the instructions given by a medical or veterinary professional. Talk with your healthcare provider and veterinarian about responsible antibiotic use to keep pets and people healthy.
Learn more about Pets and Antibiotic Resistance.
Learn more about Antimicrobial Use in Companion Animal Practice from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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