Two laboratories in the Department of Microbiology of the UB will participate in this project: the Enteric Virus Laboratory and the Health and Water Microbiology Laboratory. The Enteric Virus Laboratory is devoted to the study of human enteric viral agents as norovirus, sapovirus, astrovirus, rotavirus and hepatitis A virus. It was the first university laboratory in Spain to receive the certification of Good Laboratory Practices for validation studies of viral safety. The Health and Water Microbiology lab has mainly been investigating health related aspects of water microbiology and the characterisation and ecology of phages infecting enteric bacteria, mainly E.coli, Salmonella and Bacteroides.
