CREATE
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are among one of the greatest threats to animal and human health given that they are often impossible to treat with antibiotics. They can spread silently throughout veterinary hospitals while setting up environmental reservoirs and spread to animals and possibly people. The CREATE website aims to be a resource to veterinarians, veterinary hospital administrators, and veterinary laboratories to help prepare for, respond to, and appropriately detect CRE.
About the CREATE Project
The CREATE Project was founded by Dr. Stephen Cole and Dr. Shelley Rankin at the University of Pennsylvania to disseminate the “lesson’s learned” following an outbreak of NDM-5 Escherichia coli at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital. The founders encourage active discussion and collaboration with regards to CRE outbreaks and cases in veterinary medicine settings. Please contact them if you have any questions or comments. Development of the resources of the CREATE website has been sponsored by capacity grant funding (U18-FDA00006984) from the Food and Drug Administration’s Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN).
CREATE a Plan and a Response
For Veterinarians and Administrators
The “CREATE a Plan” section of the CREATE website focuses on what to do before CRE is found to be a problem at a veterinary facility.
The “CREATE a Response” section of the CREATE website focuses on what to do after CRE is found or suspected to be a problem at a veterinary facility.
CREATE Project Director
Stephen D. Cole, VMD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Microbiology
Lab CREATE
For Veterinary Diagnostics Labs
The Lab CREATE section of the website includes documents for use by veterinary clinical microbiology laboratories.
CREATE
Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacterales Animal Testing and Epidemiology
Phone: (215) 573-7425
Email: CREATE@vet.upenn.edu