The Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) urges the federal government to include steps to prevent and combat drug-resistant infections in its pandemic preparedness plans. With the diminishing power of antibiotics to treat infections due to increasing antimicrobial resistance, the threat of a bacterial pandemic or a viral pandemic, accompanied by secondary bacterial infections resistant to our available stock of antimicrobials remains possible. Recommendations from PACCARB, in this report, include, developing new antimicrobials, vaccines, and diagnostics to address resistant bacterial and fungal infections that may arise in a future pandemic and creating a clinical trial and regulatory approval infrastructure that can quickly facilitate the availability of new medical countermeasures. The group also recommends expanding current surveillance systems for emerging viral threats to include resistant pathogens in human, animal, plant, and environmental settings and modernizing existing surveillance databases for One Health interoperability.
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Published On: /04/2023
