White, Rhys T. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6620-758X
Bull, Matthew J.
Barker, Clare R.
Arnott, Julie M.
Wootton, Mandy
Jones, Lim S.
Howe, Robin A.
Morgan, Mari http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8546-6189
Ashcroft, Melinda M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9157-4533
Forde, Brian M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2264-4785
Connor, Thomas R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-6504
Beatson, Scott A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1806-3283
Funding for this research was provided by:
RCUK | Medical Research Council (MR/T030062/1)
Wellcome Trust
Article History
Received: 13 October 2021
Accepted: 30 January 2024
First Online: 14 February 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was carried out as part of a larger project examining <i>E. coli</i> bacteraemia in Wales. The National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR) research ethics committee was approached with an outline of the project to determine whether ethical agreements would be required for the work to be undertaken. The view of the committee was that whilst they would classify the project as research, sit was research that fell within the remit of Public Health and was exempt from requiring ethical approval. This work was undertaken on stored bacterial cultures and no additional clinical samples were collected from any persons to facilitate this study. Patient anonymity was ensured by Public Health Wales’ <i>E. coli</i> bacteraemia project manager by preparing a pseudonymised study dataset and samples for whole-genome sequencing and analysis by Cardiff University.