NCEZID Accomplishments 2016

Number 1: Leading the response to the outbreak of Zika

• Detecting and tracking Zika
• Coordinating the emergency response
• Diagnosing Zika
• Controlling mosquitoes
• Connecting the dots
• Keeping travelers and athletes healthy and safe at the Olympics

Number 2: Transforming the nation’s fight against antibiotic resistance

• Establishing the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN)
• Supporting other AR priorities
• Spurring innovation to protect modern medicine
• New data resources to drive change

Number 3: Hunting for—and finding—emerging and dangerous infectious threats

• mcr-1
• Candida auris
• Elizabethkingia

Number 4: Applying new technologies to advance disease detection

Advanced Molecular Detection

Number 5: Giving more assistance and resources to states than ever before

• ELC
• MicrobeNet

Number 6: Improving healthcare

• Increasing awareness of sepsis
• Expanding capacity of Prevention Epicenters

Number 7: Making food safer to eat

• PulseNet
• NARMS

Number 8: Responding to outbreaks

• Foodborne outbreaks
• Cross-border effort helps identify new listeriosis outbreak source
• Outbreaks caused by contact with animals
• Outbreaks related to healthcare
• Cardiac arrest during dialysis

Number 9: Targeting infectious disease work across the globe

• Supporting the response to a yellow fever outbreak in Angola and DRC
• Looking for antimicrobial resistance in India
• Strengthening systems for recognizing and treating cholera in Cameroon
• Responding to an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Niger
• Post-Ebola infection control work in Africa

Number 10: Scoring victories against deadly infections

• Ebola
• Rabies
• Hantavirus