Last June 10, our collaborators from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) paid a visit to the Pathogen-Host-Environment Interactions Research Laboratory (PHEIRL) at the Institute of Biology (IB), College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman. The LSHTM Team, led by Dr. Taane Clark and accompanied by Dr. Martin Hibberd, Dr. Jody Phelan, and Dr. Julius Hafalla, conducted their first tour in their collaborators in the Philippines since the pandemic from June 9 – to June 16, 2022. Their Philippine collaborators include the Philippine Genome Center, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, and Pampanga State Agricultural University. They first visited the Institute of Biology in collaboration with the 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 genomics project, led by Dr. Windell Rivera. Ms. Jonah Mora, the lead researcher, presented their progress on the project “Using genomics to trace 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 transmission and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the poultry and swine food chains in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines.”

𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 Genomics is a three-year project study that first to use a genomic approach (whole-genome sequencing) to determine genomic variation among 𝑆. 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 isolated during pre- and post-slaughter of swine and chicken and uses this to understand the transmissibility and drug resistance of 𝑆. 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 isolates.

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