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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Benefits of Whole Genome Sequencing for Foodborne Outbreak Investigation from the Perspective of a National Reference Laboratory in a Smaller Country.

Stéphanie Nouws, Bert Bogaerts, Bavo Verhaegen, Sarah Denayer, Florence Crombé, Klara De Rauw, Denis Piérard, Kathleen Marchal, Kevin Vanneste, Nancy H C Roosens and 1 more

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Stéphanie NouwsDepartment of Expertise and service provision, Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Bert BogaertsDepartment of Expertise and service provision, Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2806-4033
Bavo VerhaegenNational Reference Laboratory for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (NRL-STEC), National Reference Laboratory for Foodborne Outbreaks (NRL-FBO), Department of Infectious diseases in humans, Foodborne Pathogens, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Sarah DenayerNational Reference Laboratory for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (NRL-STEC), National Reference Laboratory for Foodborne Outbreaks (NRL-FBO), Department of Infectious diseases in humans, Foodborne Pathogens, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Florence CrombéDepartment of Microbiology and Infection Control, National Reference Center for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (NRC-STEC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Klara De RauwDepartment of Microbiology and Infection Control, National Reference Center for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (NRC-STEC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Denis PiérardDepartment of Microbiology and Infection Control, National Reference Center for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (NRC-STEC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), 1090 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7756-3691
Kathleen MarchalDepartment of Information Technology, IDLab, imec, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Kevin VannesteDepartment of Expertise and service provision, Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Nancy H C RoosensDepartment of Expertise and service provision, Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9218-078X
Sigrid C J De KeersmaeckerDepartment of Expertise and service provision, Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4198-4133

Funding

Belgian Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment RF 17/6316 StEQIDEMIC.beSciensano contract RP .Be READY
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gradually, conventional methods for foodborne pathogen typing are replaced by whole genome sequencing (WGS). Despite studies describing the overall benefits, National Reference Laboratories of smaller countries often show slower uptake of WGS, mainly because of significant investments required to generate and analyze data of a limited amount of samples. To facilitate this process and incite policy makers to support its implementation, a Shiga toxin-producing

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foodborne outbreak investigationfood safetyShiga toxin-producing Escherichia coliSTECsurveillanceWGSwhole genome sequencing

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