The Enteric Reference Laboratory

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The Enteric Reference Laboratory (ERL)

The Enteric Reference Laboratory (ERL) provides national reference and surveillance laboratory services for human, animal, food and environmental enteric bacterial pathogens. Confirmation and characterisation is performed using a combination of traditional and molecular typing methods.

Typing results and analyses allow the ERL to detect clusters, identify outbreaks or exotic isolates which inform public health authorities for targeted responses and interventions in food and waterborne investigations.