Ms. Rita Ohene Larbi

Principal Technologist

Office : ARI Room 5

Email : rolarbi@csir.org.gh/ rohenelarbi@gmail.com

Degrees : B. Sc Biological Sciences (KNUST, Ghana), M. Phil Microbiology (KNUST, Ghana)

Active Affiliations : RSA

Research

Research Interests

My research interest lies in bacteriology, infection, antimicrobial resistance of bacteria of economic importance and the employment of molecular techniques to determine the mechanisms behind emerging resistances

Current Research

Antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella spp in imported day-old- chicks.

Antimicrobial resistance in microbes of economic importance in rabbit.

Antimicrobial resistance of E. coli and Salmonella spp. in quails.

Microbial profiling of poultry litter.

Brief Profile

Ms. Rita Ohene Larbi is a Principal Technologist of the Animal Research Institute (ARI) under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana. She holds an M. Phil in Microbiology and a B. Sc. in Biological Sciences from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology (TAB) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Her research interest lies in bacteriology, infection, antimicrobial resistance of bacteria of economic importance and the employment of molecular techniques to determine the mechanisms behind emerging resistances. She is currently partnering with researchers in the Companion Animal and Livestock Disease Control and Prevention Division (CALDCPD)-ARI to determine the antimicrobial resistance in imported day-old-chicks, antimicrobial resistance in microbes of economic importance in rabbit, antimicrobial resistance of E. coli and Salmonella spp. in quails. Her research seeks to provide significant data on antimicrobial surveillance in food animals to provide much information for key policy makers in the fight against antimicrobial resistance worldwide.