Prioritisation of food-borne parasites in Europe, 2016.
Journal
Eurosurveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Martijn Bouwknegt
Brecht Devleesschauwer
Heather Graham
Lucy J Robertson
Joke WB van der Giessen
the Euro-FBP workshop participants⁵ Hafidh Akkari (ENMV, Tunisia), Teofilia Banu (IDAH, Romania), Rabia Cakir Koc (YTU, Turkey), Rachel Chalmers (Wales NHS, UK), Carmen Michaela Cretu (UMFCD, Romania), Gunita Deksne (Bior, Latvia), Olgica Djurkovic-Djakovic (UoB, Serbia), Pierre Dorny (ITM, Belgium), Emilia Dvoroznakova (SAS, Slovakia), Heidi L Enemark (NVI, Norway), Cedric Gerard (Nestlé, Switzerland), Maria Angeles Gomez Morales (ISS, Italy), Maja Jurhar-Pavlova (UKiM, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Christian Kapel (UCPH, Denmark), Titia Kortbeek (RIVM, the Netherlands), Istvan Kucsera (ANTSZ, Hungary), Brian Lassen (EMU, Estonia) Jelena Petrovic (NIV, Serbia), Katharina Riehn (HAW Hamburg, Germany), David Rodriguez-Lazaro (UBU, Spain), Miroslaw Rozycki (NVRI, Poland), Michal Slany (VRI, Czech Republic), Jovana Stefanovska (UKiM, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Mario Sviben (HZJZ, Croatia), Krzysztof Stojecki (NVRI, Poland), Smaragda Sotiraki (NAGREF, Greece), Chiara Trevisan (ITM, Belgium), Karin Troell (SVA, Sweden), Alexandra Uzelac (UoB, Serbia), Isabelle Vallee (ANSES, France), Apostolos Vantarakis (UPATRAS, Greece), Sasa Vasilev (INEP, Serbia), Kamenna Vutova (MU-Sofia, Bulgaria), Theo de Waal (UCD, Ireland)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.17-00161
Abstract
Background and aims: Priority setting is a challenging
task for public health professionals. To support health
professionals with this and in following a recommendation
from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization
(WHO), 35 European parasitologists attended a workshop
from 8–12 February 2016 to rank food-borne
parasites (FBP) in terms of their importance for
Europe and regions within Europe. Methods: Countries
were divided into European regions according to
those used by the European Society of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. We used
the same multicriteria decision analysis approach
as the FAO/WHO, for comparison of results, and a
modified version, for better regional representation.
Twenty-five FBP were scored in subgroups, using
predefined decision rules. Results: At the European
level, Echinococcus multilocularis ranked first, followed
by Toxoplasma gondiiand Trichinella spiralis. At
the regional level, E. multilocularis ranked highest in
Northern and Eastern Europe, E. granulosus in South-
Western and South-Eastern Europe, and T. gondii in
Western Europe. Anisakidae, ranking 17th globally,
appeared in each European region’s top 10. In contrast,
Taenia solium, ranked highest globally but 10th
for Europe. Conclusions: FBP of importance in Europe
differ from those of importance globally, requiring
targeted surveillance systems, intervention measures,
and preparedness planning that differ across the
world and across Europe.
task for public health professionals. To support health
professionals with this and in following a recommendation
from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization
(WHO), 35 European parasitologists attended a workshop
from 8–12 February 2016 to rank food-borne
parasites (FBP) in terms of their importance for
Europe and regions within Europe. Methods: Countries
were divided into European regions according to
those used by the European Society of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. We used
the same multicriteria decision analysis approach
as the FAO/WHO, for comparison of results, and a
modified version, for better regional representation.
Twenty-five FBP were scored in subgroups, using
predefined decision rules. Results: At the European
level, Echinococcus multilocularis ranked first, followed
by Toxoplasma gondiiand Trichinella spiralis. At
the regional level, E. multilocularis ranked highest in
Northern and Eastern Europe, E. granulosus in South-
Western and South-Eastern Europe, and T. gondii in
Western Europe. Anisakidae, ranking 17th globally,
appeared in each European region’s top 10. In contrast,
Taenia solium, ranked highest globally but 10th
for Europe. Conclusions: FBP of importance in Europe
differ from those of importance globally, requiring
targeted surveillance systems, intervention measures,
and preparedness planning that differ across the
world and across Europe.
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