Author Profile

Mahdi Askari is a university lecturer on general, diagnostic and pathogenic bacteriology and also a researcher in veterinary and public health microbiology. His main fields of interest include virulence, epidemiology, pathogenesis and resistance of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in animals and its zoonotic risk for humans. He is actively pursuing collaborative studies on pathogenic E. coli. He is currently working on the emerging zoonotic Escherichia spp. in humans and animals.