Emerging Issues: An Analysis for VTEC E. coli on the Island of Ireland
- Project start date: 1 August 2014
- Project status: Completed
- Project type: Food safety
- Discipline: Microbiology and food hygiene
- Author/s: Dr Brigid Lucey, Cork Institute of Technology
Research objective
- To describe the capacity on the island of Ireland for laboratories, both research and analytical, in the public sector to test for VTEC in both O157 and non-O157, including screening for pathogenicity genes.
- To collate available data throughout the island of Ireland on O157 and non-O157 VTEC detection in samples derived from animals, food and human sources
- To outline the capacity for O157 and non-O157 VTEC analysis in other countries in animal, food and human sources and any possible examples of international best practice in such analytical approaches.
Outputs
Research report
- Title: Emerging Issues: An Analysis for VTEC E. coli on the Island of Ireland
- Date: 10 September 2016
- Summary: Unpublished report. Please see peer-reviewed article below.
Other outputs
Peer-reviewed article
Rice T, Quinn N, Sleator RD, Lucey B. Changing Diagnostic Methods and Increased Detection of Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Ireland. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Sep;22(9):1656-7. doi: 10.3201/eid2209.160477. Epub 2016 Sep 15. PMID: 27322897; PMCID: PMC4994365.
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