Publications by authors named "L Amsterdam"
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- The CDC launched the Strengthening the US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) initiative in 2016 to improve rapid detection and response strategies for antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea across multiple jurisdictions.
- Funded jurisdictions worked on better specimen collection for gonorrhea testing, rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and enhanced data communication, collecting over 58,000 specimens between 2018 and 2019.
- The initiative successfully expanded testing and partner services, finding only a small percentage of cases with significant antibiotic resistance, and hopes to inform future public health strategies against gonococcal resistance.
Background: Cisgender women have been underrepresented in antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea (ARGC) surveillance systems. Three of 8 project sites (City of Milwaukee [MIL], Guilford County [GRB], Denver County [DEN]), funded under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Strengthening the US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG), focused efforts to better include cisgender women in ARGC surveillance.
Methods: MIL, GRB, and DEN partnered with diverse health care settings and developed gonorrhea culture criteria to facilitate urogenital specimen collection in cisgender women and men.
Background: Although most gonorrhea (GC) cases in the United States are detected using nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) using culture specimens is needed for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). We present data on NAATs and cultures collected before and during the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstration project (Strengthening the US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea [SURRG]) to describe a process to define culture criteria for NG isolation for surveillance of NG with reduced susceptibility.
Methods: For sexually transmitted infection clinics in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; and Milwaukee, WI, we calculated NAAT positivity by anatomic site in 2016 (pre-SURRG) across 3 groups: (1) sex partners of persons with GC, (2) patients with symptoms (e.
Inter-professional education and primary care: EFPC position paper.
Prim Health Care Res Dev
October 2019
Inter-professional education (IPE) can support professionals in developing their ability to work collaboratively. This position paper from the European Forum for Primary Care considers the design and implementation of IPE within primary care. This paper is based on workshops and is an evidence review of good practice.
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