Eva Møller Nielsen

Research area

• Enteric and foodborne bacteria, e.g., Campylobacter, Listeria, E.coli, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Clostridium difficile
• One Health
• Foodborne and zoonotic bacteria: 
  • Epidemiology
  • Phylogeny and molecular epidemiology
  • Virulence
  • Antimicrobial resistance

Prizes and honors

Kauffmann prize 2009

Link publications

Link to ORCID: Eva Møller Nielsen

Responsibilities

Head, Section for Foodborne Infections.

The Section for Foodborne Infections is responsible for the laboratory based surveillance of bacterial gastrointestinal infections in Denmark, including:

• Detection and investigation of foodborne outbreaks
• Development and implementation of typing methods, including the use of whole genome sequencing for research and surveillance of infections
• Antimicrobial resistance in enteric pathogens
• Reference diagnostics of enteric pathogens
• Veterinary preparedness
• One Health research and collaboration

The laboratories of Section for Foodborne Infections function as the:

• National Reference Laboratory for enteric bacteria
• National Reference Laboratory for typing of E. coli and Klebsiella 

Publications

• Joensen KG, Kuhn KG, Müller L, Björkman JT, Torpdahl M, Engberg J, Holt HM, Nielsen, HL, Petersen AM, Ethelberg S, Nielsen EM. 2018. Whole-genome sequencing of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from Danish routine human samples reveals surprising degree of clustering. Clin Microbiol Infect 24: 201.e5-201.e8
  
  
• Kuhn KG, EM Nielsen, K Mølbak, S Ethelberg. 2018. Determinants of sporadic Campylobacter infections in Denmark: a nationwide case-control study among children and young adults. Clinical Epidemiology 10, 1695-1707
  
  
• Schjørring S, Raiser SG, Jensen Tenna, Moura Alexandra, Kjeldgaard Jette S, Müller L, Thielke Stine, Leclercq Alexandre, Maury Mylene M, Tourdjman Mathieu, Donguy Marie-Pierre, Lecuit Marc, Ethelberg S, Nielsen EM. 2017. Cross-border outbreak of listeriosis caused by cold-smoked salmon, revealed by integrated surveillance and whole genome sequencing (WGS), Denmark and France, 2015 to 2017. Euro Surveill 22(50).
  
  
• Gymoese P, Sørensen G, Litrup E, Olsen JE, Nielsen EM, Torpdahl M. 2017. Investigation of outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and its monophasic variants using whole-genome sequencing, Denmark. Emerg Infect Dis 23, 1631-1639.
  
  
• Jensen AK, JT Larsson, S Ethelberg, K Kiil, M. Kemp, EM Nielsen. 2016. Molecular typing and epidemiology of human listeriosis cases in Denmark, 2002–2012. Emerging Infect Dis 22: 625-33