Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, conducted a meeting of scientists and technical officers on February 17, 2011.
Dr Bala Swaminathan, senior vice-president, technical, and business development, IHRC, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA, delivered a speech on 'Revolutionising Food-borne Disease Outbreak Investigations in the United States.”
Dr Swaminathan, with more than 30 years of research and management experience in the application of molecular biology techniques to the practical problems of public health and food safety, was the driving force behind the development of PulseNet, a successful molecular sub-typing-based network to detect outbreaks involving food-borne pathogens in the U S.
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