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Evidence-based semiquantitative methodology for prioritization of foodborne zoonoses.
Cardoen, Sabine; Van Huffel, Xavier; Berkvens, Dirk et al.
2009In Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 6 (9), p. 1083-96
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Keywords :
Animals; Bacteria/pathogenicity; Belgium/epidemiology; Blood-Borne Pathogens/classification; Databases, Factual; Evidence-Based Practice; Food Microbiology; Food Parasitology; Foodborne Diseases/classification/epidemiology; Health Priorities/statistics & numerical data; Humans; Parasites/pathogenicity; Prions/pathogenicity; Viruses/pathogenicity; Water Microbiology; Zoonoses/classification/epidemiology
Abstract :
[en] OBJECTIVES: To prioritize an extended list of food- and water-borne zoonoses to allow food safety authorities to focus on the most relevant hazards in the food chain. METHODS: An evidence-based semiquantitative methodology was developed. Scores were given by 35 scientific experts in the field of animal and public health, food, and clinical microbiology and epidemiology to 51 zoonotic agents according to five criteria related to public health (severity and occurrence in humans), animal health (severity of disease coupled with economic consequences and occurrence in animals), and food (occurrence in food). The scoring procedure was standardized and evidence-based as experts were provided, for each zoonotic agent, a same set of up-to-date help information data related to the five criteria. Independently, the relative importance of the five criteria was weighted by seven food chain risk managers. The zoonotic agents were ranked based on overall weighted scores and were grouped in four statistically different levels of importance. RESULTS: The following foodborne zoonotic pathogens were classified as "most important": Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Listeria monocytogenes, and verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli. A second group of "significant importance" included Toxoplasma gondii, the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Clostridium botulinum, Staphylococcus aureus, Cryptosporidium parvum, Mycobacterium bovis, Echinococcus granulosus, Streptococcus spp., Echinococcus multilocularis, Yersinia enterocolitica, Mycobacterium avium, Fasciola hepatica, Giardia intestinalis, and Rotavirus. CONCLUSIONS: This methodology allowed to rank 51 zoonotic agents with objectivity and taking account of a combined input from risk assessors and risk managers. Applications: These results support food safety policy makers to establish the multiannual monitoring program of foodborne zoonoses. They also enable to identify knowledge gaps on specific zoonotic agents and to formulate key research questions. Principally, this method of prioritization is of general interest as it can be applied for any other ranking exercise and in any country.
Disciplines :
Veterinary medicine & animal health
Author, co-author :
Cardoen, Sabine
Van Huffel, Xavier
Berkvens, Dirk
Quoilin, Sophie
Ducoffre, Genevieve
Saegerman, Claude  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér.
Speybroeck, Niko
Imberechts, Hein
Herman, Lieve
Ducatelle, Richard
Dierick, Katelijne
Language :
English
Title :
Evidence-based semiquantitative methodology for prioritization of foodborne zoonoses.
Publication date :
2009
Journal title :
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
ISSN :
1535-3141
eISSN :
1556-7125
Publisher :
Mary Ann Liebert, United States
Volume :
6
Issue :
9
Pages :
1083-96
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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