Major Scientific Achievements

There have been several major scientific achievements during thefirst half of Med-Vet-Net's life including:

• the successful submission for a new EU-funded IntegratedProject, Biotracer, aimed at improving the traceability ofun-intended organisms in the food chain
• central repositories for the collection of characterizedTrichinella, Cryptosporidia and Giardiaisolates and reagents.
• an authorative report for policy makers on "Towards anintegrated approach in supporting microbiological food safetydecisions"
• a collection of reports and evaluations on risk assessment inthe pre-harvest phase of food-animal production
• published recommendations for future research on VerotoxigenicEscherichia coli.
• a unique database of DNA sequences from over 170 European BatLyssavirus isolates from 8 European countries
• evaluation of the prevalence of 1 in nearly 400 Europeanisolates of Salmonella, E. coli andShigella.
• an international conference on "Priority setting of foodborneand zoonotic pathogens"
• an algorithm published enabling diagnostic and early treatmentprocedures in suspected cases of human trichinellosis
• tool development enabling the successful detection of anoutbreak of salmonella carrying the 16S RNA methylase genemediating aminoglycoside resistance.