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Program on research and innovation leading to rapid detection of pathogenic E. coli: Point-of-need gene-based system for detection of priority STEC in beef

PROJECT LEAD(S)/CO-LEAD(S) Michel Bergeron (Universite Laval) & Burton Blais (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
FUNDER 2012/2013 Program on Research and Innovation Leading to Rapid Detection of Pathogenic E. coli
PROJECT START DATE July 1, 2013
PROJECT END DATE
COMPETITION/ FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 2012/2013 Program on Research and Innovation Leading to Rapid Detection of Pathogenic E. coli
ALBERTA’S ROLE Lead

The consumption of food infected with diseases can lead to serious human health problems, violent gastrointestinal disease and potentially death, and to disastrous economic consequences to the agri-food industry due to food recalls. This project contains a research and development consortium composed of experts from academia, federal government agencies, food testing industry (PBR Laboratories Inc.), and a molecular diagnostics company (GenePOC Inc.). The ultimate goail is to develop and validate a rapid molecular microbiology test method enabling the detection, in artificially contaminated ground beef, of seven STEC/VTEC that are of public interest, by real-time PCR in less than 8 hours, instead of a minimum turnaround time of 3-4 days required by current methodologies.

 

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