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The Global Impact of Foodborne Parasites

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Foodborne Parasites

Part of the book series: Food Microbiology and Food Safety ((RESDEV))

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Transmission of pathogens via food has long been recognized to be of importance to the world’s population, but how to measure the impact is less obvious. For foodborne parasites, the neglected pathogens with a huge taxonomic, morphological, and clinical diversity, a wide range of life cycles and potential transmission vehicles, the picture is even more complicated. In this chapter, after discussion of how impact can be ascertained, three important impact variables are considered: the impact of foodborne parasites on global public health, the impact of foodborne parasites on global trade, and the impact of foodborne parasites on socioeconomic status in vulnerable communities. Examples of different foodborne parasites, protozoa, cestodes, nematodes, and trematodes illustrate different impacts in these three categories. By necessity, not all foodborne parasites are included, and some readers will probably feel that their own personal favorites, maybe  Toxoplasma gondii, Fasciola hepatica, Ascaris lumbricoides, or Trypanosoma cruzi, have been unjustly omitted. I can only agree and refer interested readers to the increasing library of literature that has space to discuss these various important foodborne parasites with the attention that they deserve.

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  1. Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 8146 Dep., 0033, Oslo, Norway

    Lucy J. Robertson

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  2. School of Animal and Comparative, Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Charles R. Sterling

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Robertson, L.J. (2018). The Global Impact of Foodborne Parasites. In: Ortega, Y., Sterling, C. (eds) Foodborne Parasites. Food Microbiology and Food Safety(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67664-7_14

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