ArticleFoodborne pathogens and disease2013
Estimates of the burden of foodborne illness in Canada for 30 specified pathogens and unspecified agents, circa 2006.
Article in Foodborne pathogens and disease, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 185 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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185 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Meta-Analysis of the Reduction of Norovirus and Male-Specific Coliphage Concentrations in Wastewater Treatment Plants.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Pooled it
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- The global burden of listeriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2014Pooled it
- A systematic review characterizing on-farm sources of Campylobacter spp. for broiler chickens.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
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- Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States-Major Pathogens, 2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
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Abstract
Estimates of foodborne illness are important for setting food safety priorities and making public health policies. The objective of this analysis is to estimate domestically acquired, foodborne illness in Canada, while identifying data gaps and areas for further research. Estimates of illness due to 30 pathogens and unspecified agents were based on data from the 2000-2010 time period from Canadian surveillance systems, relevant international literature, and the Canadian census population for 2006. The modeling approach required accounting for under-reporting and underdiagnosis and to estimate the proportion of illness domestically acquired and through foodborne transmission. To account for uncertainty, Monte Carlo simulations were performed to generate a mean estimate and 90% credible interval. It is estimated that each year there are 1.6 million (1.2-2.0 million) and 2.4 million (1.8-3.0 million) episodes of domestically acquired foodborne illness related to 30 known pathogens and unspecified agents, respectively, for a total estimate of 4.0 million (3.1-5.0 million) episodes of domestically acquired foodborne illness in Canada. Norovirus, Clostridium perfringens, Campylobacter spp., and nontyphoidal Salmonella spp. are the leading pathogens and account for approximately 90% of the pathogen-specific total. Approximately one in eight Canadians experience an episode of domestically acquired foodborne illness each year in Canada. These estimates cannot be compared with prior crude estimates in Canada to assess illness trends as different methodologies were used.
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