It's challenging and also rewarding.

I am Dr. Allison James.

I am a veterinarian and microbiologist, and I work at CDC in the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.

So we cover a lot of territory in terms of different pathogens that come from food, water, the environment.

But my program is the One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Program, and I lead that program in the outbreak response and prevention branch.

And the work we do is really focused on looking at antimicrobial resistant bacteria that are transmitted or shared between humans and animals.

So that covers a lot of different areas, but one of the main focuses of my program has been carbapenem-resistant organisms in companion animals, or when I say companion animals, I mean dogs and cats.

Let's zoom out and talk about the main findings of the study.