HPA - Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens - John Threlfall
Professor John Threlfall has worked in the Health Protection Agency (formerly the Public Health Laboratory Service) since attaining a PhD in Microbial Genetics from the University of Leicester in 1969. He is currently Director of the HPA Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, which is the national reference facility for bacterial enteric pathogens isolated from humans in England and Wales, including such pathogens as Salmonella and VTEC. Until September 2007 he was Joint Project Leader on the EU-funded EnterNet project (now subsumed into the ECDC) and prior to this was Principal Investigator on the EU-funded SalmGene project, which was the forerunner of PulseNet Europe.
John has responsibility for the HPA for liaison with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) and as such is involved in numerous joint research projects between the HPA and the VLA. He has acted as a consultant for the World Health Organisation and the European Food Safety Authority on several occasions. His principal interests are in antimicrobial drug resistance and the molecular epidemiology of foodborne zoonoses.
