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Title: Prioritisation of food-borne parasites in Europe, 2016.
Authors: 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)
Maja Jurhar Pavlova 
Stefanovska, Jovana 
Keywords: awareness
multi-criteria decision analysis
preparedness planning
ranking
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Journal: Eurosurveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
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.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/9687
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.17-00161
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