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Bact Facts Interactive allows you to view data from Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs), a part of CDC's Emerging Infections Program. ABCs is laboratory- and population-based surveillance that monitors invasive bacterial infections that cause bloodstream infections, sepsis, and meningitis in persons living in the community. Public health personnel use ABCs data to understand the burden of these severe infections and to inform vaccine and other public health policies.
How to Use Bact Facts Interactive
Data are available for group A Streptococcus, group B Streptococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Each bacterium has different characteristics, so topics will vary. You can break down some topics by age, race, or sex.
Topics may include
- Estimated number of cases and deaths
- Case and death rates
- Clinical syndromes
- Serotypes, serogroups, or emm types
- Antibiotic resistance
You can display the data in a graph or a table. Right click anywhere in the graph for a tabular view. Hovering your mouse over or selecting a data point or bar in the graph will display detailed information. Some graphs allow you to hide or show data from the legend for detailed analysis.