1Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy 2Lab. of Zoology, Department of Ecology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark 3Centre for Food-borne and Animal Parasitology, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Saskatoon, Canada 4UMR BIPAR INRA AFSSA ENVA UPVM, Maisons-Alfort, France 5Parasitologie, Hopi...

Executive Summary The Food-borne trematodiases (FBTs) represent a major group of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – more than 40 million people are infected with one or more of the FBTs, and 750 million (>10% of the world’s population) others worldwide remain at risk on contracting FBTs. Over 100 species of food-borne trematodes are known to infect humans, although only several are respon...

Food-borne parasitic diseases, many known to be more prevalent in poor countries with deficient sanitary conditions, are becoming common worldwide. Among the emerging protozoan parasites, the most prominent is Trypanosoma cruzi, rarely reported in the past to be transmitted by the oral route but currently responsible for frequent outbreaks of acute cases of Chagas disease contracted orally and ...

Food safety has attracted extensive attention around the world, and food-borne diseases have become one of the major threats to health. Staphylococcus aureus is a major food-borne pathogen worldwide and a frequent contaminant of foodstuffs. Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) produced by some S. aureus strains will lead to staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) outbreaks. The most common symptoms ca...

We examined how different drivers of infectious disease could interact to threaten control efforts in Europe. We considered projected trends through 2020 for 3 broad groups of drivers: globalization and environmental change, social and demographic change, and health system capacity. Eight plausible infectious disease threats with the potential to be significantly more problematic than they are ...

Sustainability relies on the environmental, social and economical systems: the three pillars of sustainability. The social sustainability mostly advocates the people’s welfare, health, safety, and quality of life. In the agricultural food industry, the aspects of social sustainability, such as consumer health and safety have gained substantial attention due to the frequent cases of food-borne d...

background and objectives: staphylococcal food poisoning is a gastrointestinal disease, which is caused by consumption of contaminated food with enterotoxins produced by staphylococcus aureus (ses). milk and its products are known sources of food borne diseases. this study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of enterotoxigenic s. aureus strains in organic milk and cheese in tabriz - iran...