Division of Bacterial Diseases (DBD)

Our Mission

The mission of the Division of Bacterial Diseases (DBD) is to prevent and control illness and death from vaccine-preventable and other respiratory bacterial diseases, in the U.S. and worldwide, through excellence in epidemiologic and laboratory science. This office within the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases plays a critical role in outbreak response, diagnostic epidemiology, vaccine development, and control of respiratory and vaccine-preventable disease nationally and globally.

Our Priorities

• Improve detection, prevention, and control of respiratory and related invasive bacterial pathogens
• Accelerate development, introduction, and monitoring of bacterial vaccines domestically
• Accelerate development, introduction, and monitoring of bacterial vaccines globally

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What We Do

The Division of Bacterial Diseases serves as the primary contact regarding bacterial respiratory and vaccine-preventable diseases. In addition to serving as experts in the area of bacterial respiratory and vaccine-preventable disease issues, we also:

• Assure the overall quality of the science relating to bacterial respiratory and vaccine-preventable disease
• Review, prepare, and coordinate congressional testimony and briefing documents related to these diseases, and analyze programmatic and policy implications of legislative proposals
• Advise CDC, OID, and NCIRD on policy matters concerning DBD programs and activities
• Provide statistical methodology and participate in outbreak investigations and disease reporting systems for ongoing surveillance
• Develop new methods or adapt existing methods for statistical applications in epidemiologic or laboratory research studies
• Provide statistical consultation for epidemiologic and laboratory research studies

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DBD Organization Chart

• Organization Chart [14 KB, 1 page] (text-only) Updated Sept 2011

DBD Newsletter

About the Bulletin

DBD publishes a newsletter to update staff and interested stakeholders about ongoing Division activities. The first issue was released in December 2008.

2012

• Summer 2012 Posted July 2012

2011

• Winter 2011 Posted December 2011
• Fall 2011 Posted November 2011
• Spring/Summer 2011 Posted Sept 2011

2010

• Winter 2010 [3.49 MB, 2 pages] Posted Dec 2010
• Summer 2010 [1.94 MB, 2 pages]Posted Oct 2010
• Spring 2010 [1.95 MB, 2 pages] Posted May 2010

2009

• Winter 2009 [1.41 MB, 2 pages]
• Summer 2009 [240.95 KB, 4 pages]
• Spring 2009 [9.62 MB, 4 pages]
  WARNING: file size is large and will take a while to download.

2008

• Winter 2008 [1.29 MB, 4 pages]

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DBD Stories

• CDC Responds to Meningitis in Burkina Faso – Interview with Rana Hajjeh
  CDC Global Health Video (Release date: 5/2/2011; Time: 3:13)
• New Meningitis Vaccine to Save Lives in Africa [1.2MB , 9 pages]
  CDC Global Health E-Brief, Third Quarter, 2010
• "Get Smart" Campaign Goes Global to Fight Antibiotic Resistance[1.3MB, 9 pages]
  CDC Global Health E-Brief, Second Quarter, 2010
• Not Just Blowing Smoke: Simple, Low-Cost Changes Reduce Respiratory Disease in Kenyan Children [729KB, 9 pages]
  CDC Global Health E-Brief, Third Quarter, 2009

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Division Contact Information

• Bacterial diseases contacts

Programs

• Pneumococcal Vaccine
• Adolescent Vaccines
• Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work
• Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs)
• Vaccine Safety Analytic Unit (VAU)
• Vaccine Development (Anthrax & Immunology)
• PneumoADIP
• The Hib Initiative

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Outbreak Resources

• Pertussis Outbreak Guidelines
• Unexplained Respiratory Disease Outbreaks

Respiratory Diseases

• Chlamydia pneumoniae
• Group A streptococcal disease (necrotizing fasciitis, impetigo, scarlet fever, strep throat, strep toxic shock)
• Group B streptococcal disease
• Haemophilus influenzae
• Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever)
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae
• Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
• Pneumococcal disease 
• Pneumococcal meningitis and cochlear implants
• Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
• Pneumonia
• Psittacosis
• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Trachoma
• Feature Story on Children's Respiratory Hospitalizations
  (April 2007)

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Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases

• Anthrax vaccine & safety
• Bacterial meningitis
• Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae Infection)
• DTaP, DT, TD vaccines
• Haemophilus influenzae serotype B
• Meningococcal meningitis
• Meningococcal conjugate vaccine
• Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine
• Neisseria meningitidis
• Pertussis (whooping cough)

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e-Tools

Web Features

• Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work (English, Spanish)
• Have You Heard About How To Prevent Meningococcal Disease? (English)
• Is Your Child Protected Against Hib Disease? (English, Spanish)
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough) - What You Need To Know (English, Spanish)
• Pneumonia Can Be Prevented – Vaccines Can Help (English )
• Protect Your Baby from Group B Strep (English)
• Protect Your Unborn Baby or Newborn from Infections (English, Spanish)

Podcasts

• Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work podcasts
• Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease, Europe, 1996–2006
• Meningitis Immunization for Adolescents
• New and Improved Vaccine (A Cup of Health with CDC)
• Pertussis, or Whooping Cough, Vaccine Recommendation for Adolescents
• Preventing Pneumonia (A Cup of Health with CDC)

Videos

• Meningococcal Disease: Have You Heard?
• Sniffle. Snort. Sneeze. No Antibiotics Please!
• CDC Expert Commentary in Partnership with Medscape (available to registered users of Medscape's Professional sites; registration is free [http://www.medscape.com])
  • Meningococcal Disease: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management
  • Pertussis: Recognition and Treatment

Health-e-Cards

Adolescent Immunization, It's Their Turn! Initiative

• It's our turn! (animated)
• It's our turn!
• It's their turn!

Appropriate Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance

• Antibiotics Use (older child)
• No Antibiotics Please (younger child)
• Prevent Resistance

Group B Strep

• Strep B Test
• Strep B Prevention
• Prevent Strep B

Pneumonia

• Prevent Flu & Pneumonia
• World Pneumonia Day

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