European Union Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli including Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
European Union Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes, Laboratory for Food Safety, Anses, Maisons-Alfort, France.
Microb Genom. 2023 Jul;9(7). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001074.
The Inter European Union Reference Laboratories (EURLs) Working Group on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) involves eight EURLs for microbiological food and feed hazards and has been working since 2017 to promote the adoption of NGS by the National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) in the European Union. This work illustrates the results of the first 5 years of activity. By working together, the EURLs involved have released guidance documents for assisting NRLs in all the steps of NGS, helping the transition from classical molecular methods towards whole genome sequencing while ensuring harmonization, with the final aim of improving preparedness in the use of NGS to characterize microbial hazards and trace the sources of infection.
欧盟参考实验室(EURL)下的新一代测序(NGS)工作组,包含 8 个微生物学食品和饲料危害 EURL,自 2017 年以来一直致力于推动欧盟国家参考实验室(NRL)采用 NGS。这项工作展示了前 5 年的活动成果。通过合作,相关 EURL 发布了指导文件,以协助 NRL 完成 NGS 的所有步骤,帮助从经典分子方法向全基因组测序过渡,同时确保协调一致,最终目标是提高使用 NGS 来描述微生物危害和追踪感染源的准备程度。