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for domestic use or food production and so must comply with the standards in the (UK) Northern Ireland WaterQuality Regulations, which incorporate European Union standards and more stringent UK national standards.Dr Lowery is currently co-supervising three MSc students with Professor James Dooley and Dr Olaf Sunnotel – theaim of the work being to develop a rapid diagnostic test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This work is being carriedout in conjunction with Professor John E. Moore and Dr BC Millar at Belfast City HospitalIn addition to this work Colm also has an interest in researching the epidemiology of Cryptosporidium sp. in theenvironment and has recently published papers in this area (see below):Publications:Maeda Y, Kenny F, Coulter WA, Loughrey A, Nagano Y, Goldsmith CE, Millar BC, Dooley JS, Lowery CJ,Rooney PJ, Matsuda M, Moore JE; Bactericidal activity of denture-cleaning formulations against planktonichealth care-associated and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Am J InfectControl, 35: 619-622, 2007Nagano Y, Finn MB, Lowery CJ, Murphy T, Moriarty J, Power E, Toolan D, O’Loughlin A, Watabe M, McCorryKA, Crothers E, Dooley JS, Rao JR, Rooney PJ, Millar BC, Matsuda M, Elborn JS, Moore JE; Occurrence ofCryptosporidium parvum and bacterial pathogens in faecal material in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) population,Vet Res Commun., 31: 559-564, 2007Sunnotel O, Snelling WJ, McDonough N, Browne L, Moore JE, Dooley JS, Lowery CJ; Effectiveness of standardUV depuration at inactivating Cryptosporidium parvum recovered from spiked Pacific oysters (Crassostreagigas); Appl Environ Microbiol, 73: 5083-5087, 2007Shigematsu M, Nagano Y, Millar BC, Kenny F, Lowery CJ, Xiao L, Rao JR, Nicholson V, Watabe M, Heaney N, Sunnotel O,McCorry K, Rooney PJ, Snelling WJ, Dooley JSG, Elborn S, Matsuda M & Moore JE; Molecular detection and identificationof Cryptosporidium species in lettuce employing nested small subunit rRNA PCR and direct automated sequencing;British Journal of Biomedical Science, 64:133-135, 2007Maeda Y, Loughrey A, Earle JA, Millar BC, Rao JR, Kearns A, McConville O, Goldsmith CE, Rooney PJ, DooleyJS, Lowery CJ, Snelling WJ, McMahon A, McDowell D, Moore JE; Antibacterial activity of honey againstcommunity-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA); Complement Ther Clin Pract.14: 77-82, 2008Snelling WJ, Stern NJ, Lowery CJ, Moore JE, Gibbons E, Baker C, Dooley JS; Colonization of broilers byCampylobacter jejuni internalized within Acanthamoeba castellanii; Arch Microbiol, 189: 175-179, 2008Stirling J, Griffith M, Dooley JS, Goldsmith CE, Loughrey A, Lowery CJ, McClurg R, McCorry K, McDowell D, McMahonA, Millar BC, Rao J, Rooney PJ, Snelling WJ, Matsuda M, Moore JE; Zoonoses Associated with Petting Farms and OpenZoos; Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases, 8: 85-92, 2008Stirling J, Griffith M, Blair I, Cormican M, Dooley JS, Goldsmith CE, Glover SG, Loughrey A, Lowery CJ, Matsuda M,McClurg R, McCorry K, McDowell D, McMahon A, Cherie Millar B, Nagano Y, Rao JR, Rooney PJ, Smyth M, SnellingWJ, Xu J, Moore JE; Prevalence of gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens in a population of zoo animals; Zoonoses PublicHealth, 55:166-172, 200865