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Dr. ir. Florence Buytaers

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Transversal activities in applied genomics

Publications

  • Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
  • Keeping our food safe: the use of sequencing technologies for foodborne outbreak investigations
  • Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
  • Shotgun metagenomics for strain-level food-borne outbreak investigation
  • Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health
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Projects

  • StEQIDEMIC.be - Development and implementation of a Belgian platform for the generation and use of “whole genome sequencing” (WGS) data for outbreak investigation, with the for human pathogenic Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) as case study

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