The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided training for seven microbiologists at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) National Reference Laboratory. Emily Schmitt-Matzen and Natashia Reese from the CDC led the class.
The training aimed to help the EPHI laboratory team conduct confirmatory tests on presumed Carbapenemase Producing Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CP-CRE) submitted from hospitals.
As part of a five-year, CDC-funded project being implemented in select hospitals and the EPHI, this project seeks to enhance the capacity of health facilities and reference laboratories to detect and contain antimicrobial resistance threats of national and global concern with a focus on CP-CREs.