The Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Reference Laboratory at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines is a participant in the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) on Genomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance project. The outputs and reports on the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) within existing or nascent surveillance systems among laboratories in Colombia, India, Nigeria and Philippines are contained in the Clinical Infectious Diseases volume 73, Issue Supplement_4 which may be accessed through this link https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/73/Supplement_4/S255/6447004.

Participants in GHRU are at varied stages of national AMR surveillance implementation. Klebsiella pneumonia, however, is a global pathogen that is of public importance to all the GHRU participating agencies thus the focus on this pathogen in this publication. The publication describes genomic surveillance reports as well as operational lessons which may serve as a developing-while-doing model to promote genomic surveillance in other countries.