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A body of evidence: field epidemiology in PHE

Posted by: Isabel Oliver, Posted on: 22 January 2014 - Categories: Field epidemiology, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

...example of a investigation that is typical of the sort of issues that we face. This outbreak of gastrointestinal illness made the BBC News. (See a full report of the...

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A revolution in genomic sequencing

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 20 January 2014 - Categories: Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...or detection of nucleic acid, particularly for the microorganisms that we cannot culture using traditional techniques. Analysing all the complex biological data we are now able to produce often involves...

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