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State Serum Institute (SSI)
Institution
Section overview
Description
SSI is a public enterprise under the Danish Ministry of Interior and Health. For more than 100 years SSI’s main task has been to secure the preparedness towards infectious diseases and congenital disorders. The tasks have been expanded, and today, SSI is an international research, production and service enterprise.
Activities
- Research
- Project Management Agency
Subordinate institutions
Involved in research projects
- Harmonisation of methods for the monitoring of VTEC and subtyping of stx2 genes
- Importance of new emerging serogroups of STEC / EHEC as contaminants of foodstuffs and potential pathogens of humans in Germany
- Improving phenotypic testing of AMR by development of rapid and sensitive screening assays for emerging resistances and setting missing ECOFFs (Epidemiologic cutoff values)
- One health - surveillance initiative on harmonization of data collection and interpretation
Contact
State Serum Institute
(SSI)
5, Orestads Boulevard
DK-2300 Kopenhagen
Denmark
Denmark
Phone: +45 3268 3268
Fax: +45 3268 3868
Email: serum(@)ssi.dk