Antimicrobial resistance: The scope and the hope for Kenya

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Continuos medical examination

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Presenters

1. Dr. Lilian Musila
   Dr. Musila is a biomedical research scientist with decades of international research, academic and teaching experience in microbiology, parasitology, human genetics, cancer, virology, developmental and molecular biology. Dr. Musila has two postdoctoral fellowships from the National Laboratory Health Services in South Africa and Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Parasitology from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, and a B.Sc. Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Dr. Musila has worked for the past fifteen years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, for the Walter Reed Project. Her work has focussed on infectious disease surveillance and research on viral and bacterial pathogens. As the head of the Antimicrobial resistance program since 2015, she focusses on antimicrobial resistance surveillance of World Halth Organization priority pathogens to track antibiotic resistance trends and define their distribution across the country and the genes responsible for antibiotic resistance and virulence. Her other research interests are determining how multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens are transmitted between humans, animals and their environment and identifying bacteriophages that can treat infections caused by MDR bacterial pathogens as alternatives for antibiotic. This research is conducted in partnership with global and national research partners.
   KEMRI- Walter reed Project