Enhancing capacity for national genomics surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in public health laboratories in Kenya

@article{Kigen2023EnhancingCF,
  title={Enhancing capacity for national genomics surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in public health laboratories in Kenya},
  author={Collins Kigen and Angela W. Muraya and Cecilia Kyany’a and Leonard Kingwara and Onesmus Mmboyi and Tiffany E Hamm and Lillian Musila},
  journal={Microbial Genomics},
  year={2023},
  volume={9},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:261335890}
}
Critical challenges were experienced in delayed delivery of equipment and supplies, power fluctuations and internet connections that were inadequate for bioinformatic analysis, but the training built the knowledge and skills to implement bacterial genomic surveillance.
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