The Microbiology Unit of Finnish Food Authority identifies bacterial isolates and carries out typing of bacterial isolates sent by food laboratories.
Biochemical identification
- Bacterial isolates sent by food laboratories and industry and suspected of being pathogenic
Serotyping
- Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli (EHEC/VTEC/STEC) O157, O145, O111, O103, O26 and O104 as well as Yersinia enterocolitica
PFGE (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) typing
- L. monocytogenes, E. coli O157, Y. enterocolitica, Y. pseudotuberculosis, Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus and thermophilic Campylobacter species - to determine the sources of foodborne outbreaks
- L. monocytogenes - to determine process contaminations in food production lines
Other studies
- EHEC/VTEC/STEC: PCR detection of virulence genes (stx1, stx2, eae and hlyA)Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseutotuberculosis: biotyping and PCR detection of virulence genes (ail, virF and inv)
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus: PCR detection of virulence genes (tdh and trh)
Contact persons
Viral typology:
Other identifications and typologies: