🏡🩺 Residents, families, and staff all play an important role in keeping our nursing home community safe and healthy!
Simple everyday actions like hand hygiene, staying home when sick, covering coughs and sneezes, and keeping vaccinations up to date can help reduce the spread of germs and infections.
🎥 Watch and share this short CDC video with residents, loved ones, and staff to learn practical ways everyone can help prevent infections in nursing homes.
FDAW, Day 5: Fungal Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Antimicrobial-Resistant Fungal Diseases | Fungal Diseases | CDC
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Podcasts
Diagnostic Access and Equity (2026) https://asm.org/podcasts/editors-in-conversation/diagnostic-access-and-equity Dr. Shawn Lockhart, lead research microbiologist at CDC, and Dr. Ellie Theel, Editor at the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, explore diagnostic access and equity, and current initiatives in the clinical microbiology community addressing these issues.
ABC News podcast, Start Here: Fungus Among Us (2024) https://abcnews.go.com/Health/growing-threat-fungal-infections/story?id=108116880 Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, gives an overview of emerging fungal diseases and potential future threats including the lack of approved antifungal medications, increasing antifungal resistance, and the impacts of climate change. A patient and her doctor talk about her battle with Valley fever. Former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski discusses the personal reasons he is concerned about the illness.
The Lancet Microbe: Conversation with Dr. Nancy Chow on Sporotrichosis (2024) https://thelancetmicrobe.buzzsprout.com/1794195/14607497-nancy-chow-on-sporotrichosis Dr. Nancy Chow, Deputy Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch talks to the Lancet about the Emergence of zoonotic sporotrichosis in Brazil: a genomic study. Findings indicate that multiple lineages of the fungus S. brasiliensis lead to the to the epidemic of cat-to-cat and cat-to-human transmitted sporotrichosis in Brazil.
Think Fungus: Fungal Disease Awareness (2020) https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/410493 Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, discusses the importance of increasing awareness about the risk of fungal infections, including of symptoms of these infections.
Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern U.S. (2019) https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/396414 Dr. Shawn Lockhart, a lead research microbiologist at CDC, discusses the history of the fungus Cryptococcus gattii in the southeastern United States.
Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis (2018) https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/382925 Kaitlin Benedict, a CDC epidemiologist, discusses Coccidioides and Valley fever.
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