CDC Launches 'CARGOS' Program to Fight Super-Gonorrhea Invasion
Published Date: 1/8/2025
Notice
Summary
The CDC wants your thoughts on a new plan called CARGOS to better track and fight antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea and other STIs. This plan aims to make data collection easier and expand efforts to keep everyone safer. If you have ideas, send them by March 10, 2025—this helps shape how the government fights these infections without adding extra hassle or costs.
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Faster detection and treatment of resistant STIs
The CARGOS project will help health clinics and public health labs find antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea faster and get results to healthcare providers and health departments quickly so patients can get the right treatment. The program will test about 700 isolates each year (600 clinical isolates and 100 control strains) and ship isolates monthly to regional labs for confirmatory testing.
Privacy and secure data transmission rules
Data sent to CDC under CARGOS will not include any personally identifiable information and will be encrypted and transmitted using CDC's Secure Access Management Services (SAMS). Local data managers will remove identifying information before monthly transmission and encrypted data will be stored on a secure CDC server with restricted access.
Time burden for participating public health staff
CDC estimates a total of 3,875 annual burden hours for CARGOS respondents. Local CARGOS data managers are estimated to spend 8 hours each month and make 12 annual transmissions; microbiologists will test about 700 isolates per year with each test taking about 10 minutes; laboratory data managers will spend about 1 hour each time they abstract and send data; and health department interviews are estimated at 48 per site annually (30 minutes each) for 960 interviews across sites.
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