On May 1st, 2015 or earlier, an Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia Coli (EHEC) epidemic broke out in Germany, with more than 1,500 people infected and 18 deaths. On May 27th, 2011, BGI received the bacteria samples for emergency test. On June 2nd, BGI completed the genome sequencing and published the data. On June 7th, BGI successfully developed the diagnostic kit for this disease and disclosed all the scientific data and information to the international communities, laying an important scientific foundation to control the epidemic as soon as possible.

On July 28th, 2011, a paper on German’s E Coli was published online in the world-renowned journal the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) based on an international collaborative research team led by BGI-Shenzhen, the Hamburg-Eppdorf University Medical Center, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of China.

The German E. coli study Paper Published in the New England Journal of Medicine