A5042994689- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Escherichia coli research studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
University of Florida
2016-2025
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2020
University of Bristol
2020
Delft University of Technology
2020
Technical University of Denmark
2020
Resources For The Future
2020
Institute for the Future
2019
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
2009-2018
Utrecht University
2008-2017
University of Florida Health
2017
Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health significant impediment socio-economic development worldwide. To measure the global regional burden of foodborne disease (FBD), World Health Organization (WHO) established Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), which here reports their first estimates incidence, mortality, due 31 hazards. We find that FBD is comparable those major infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria...
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study assesses health losses from diseases, injuries, and risk factors using disability-adjusted life-years, which need a set disability weights to quantify levels associated with non-fatal outcomes. objective this was estimate for the GBD 2013 study.We analysed data new web-based surveys participants aged 18-65 years, completed in four European countries (Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden) between Sept 23, 2013, Nov 11, combined previously collected 2010...
Culturable enteroviruses were detected by applying concentration techniques and inoculating the concentrates on BGM cell line. Samples obtained from a wide variety of environments, including raw sewage, secondary effluent, coagulated chlorinated UV-irradiated effluents, river water, lake water. The virus concentrations varied widely between 0.001 570/liter. same line also supported growth reoviruses, which abundant in winter (up to 95% viruses detected) scarce summer (less than 15%). three...
Efficient and reliable surveillance notification systems are vital for monitoring public health disease outbreaks. However, most affected by a degree of underestimation (UE) therefore uncertainty surrounds the 'true' incidence affecting morbidity mortality rates. Surveillance fail to capture cases at two distinct levels pyramid: from community since not all seek healthcare (under-ascertainment), healthcare-level, representing failure adequately report symptomatic that have sought medical...
Globally, two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, 151 million children under five stunting, and millions more have impaired cognitive development related to poor nutrition. This is partly due insufficient consumption of animal-sourced foods (ASF), which supply multiple bioavailable nutrients that are lacking in the cereal-based diets poor. Yet, reports like one recently published by EAT-Lancet Commission, solely focus on threat ASF sustainability human health, overestimate...
Background and aims The Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) study aimed to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 31 selected diseases the European Union (EU) Economic Area (EEA). Methods: DALYs were estimated using an incidence-based pathogen-based approach. Incidence was through assessment data availability quality, a correction applied under-estimation. Calculation performed with BCoDE software toolkit without applying time discounting age-weighting. Results:...
Abstract Provision of safe drinking water in the United States is a great public health achievement. However, new waterborne disease challenges have emerged (e.g., aging infrastructure, chlorine-tolerant and biofilm-related pathogens, increased recreational use). Comprehensive estimates burden for all exposure routes (ingestion, contact, inhalation) sources (drinking, recreational, environmental) are needed. We estimated total illnesses, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations,...
Background The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) was established in 2007 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to estimate global burden of foodborne diseases (FBDs). This estimation is complicated because most hazards causing FBD are not transmitted solely food; have several potential exposure routes consisting transmission from animals, humans, and via environmental including water. paper describes an expert elicitation study conducted FERG Source Attribution...
Background Recently the World Health Organization, Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) estimated that 31 foodborne diseases (FBDs) resulted in over 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths worldwide 2010. Knowing relative role importance of different foods as exposure routes for key hazards is critical to preventing illness. This study reports findings a structured expert elicitation providing globally comparable food source attribution estimates 11 major FBDs each...
In recent years, ESBL/AmpC-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL/AmpC-EC) have been isolated with increasing frequency from animals, food, environmental sources and humans. With incomplete scattered evidence, the contribution to human carriage burden these reservoirs remains unclear.To quantify molecular similarities between different as a first step towards risk attribution.Pooled data on ESBL/AmpC-EC isolates were recovered 35 studies in Netherlands comprising >27 000 samples, mostly obtained...
Enteric pathogens are a leading causes of diarrheal deaths in low-and middle-income countries. The Exposure Assessment Campylobacter Infections Rural Ethiopia (EXCAM) project, aims to identify potential sources bacteria the genus and, more generally, fecal contamination infants during first 1.5 years life using Escherichia coli as indicator. A total 1,310 samples (i.e., hand rinses from infant, sibling and mother, drinking bathing water, food fomite provided or touched by infants, areola...
Campylobacter is associated with environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and malnutrition in children. infection could be a linchpin between livestock fecal exposure health outcomes low-resource smallholder settings. We followed birth cohort of 106 infants rural households eastern Ethiopia up to 13 months age. measured anthropometry, surveyed sociodemographic determinants, collected stool urine samples. A short survey was conducted during monthly visits, infant samples were collected, spp....
The choice of a dose‐response model is decisive for the outcome quantitative risk assessment. Single‐hit models have played prominent role in assessment pathogenic microorganisms, since their introduction. Hit theory are based on few simple concepts that attractive clarity and plausibility. These models, particular Beta Poisson model, used extrapolation experimental data to low doses, as often present drinking water or food products. Unfortunately, it throughout microbial literature, an...
H avelaar , A.H. & ogeboom W.M. 1984. A method for the enumeration of male‐specific bacteriophages in sewage. Journal Applied Bacteriology 56 439–447. Male‐specific adsorb to F‐pili and thus can only infect male host strains. was developed selective these phages, based on observation that sewage there are few phages capable infecting F ‐ ‐salmonellas—usually less than 10 pfu/ml. Using a Salmonella strain, constructed by introduction plasmid F'42 lac::Tn5 into typhimu‐rium phage type 3,...