ArticleFoodborne pathogens and disease2016
Estimating the Relative Role of Various Subcategories of Food, Water, and Animal Contact Transmission of 28 Enteric Diseases in Canada.
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- Burden of disease from contaminated drinking water in countries with high access to safely managed water: A systematic review.Water research · 2023Pooled it
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- Assessing the Dissemination of Federal Risk Communication by News Media Outlets During Enteric Illness Outbreaks: Canadian Content Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Addressing Current Challenges in Poultry Meat Safety: Development of a Cultivation and Colony Hybridization Approach to Recover EnterotoxigenicPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Metagenomic Profiling of Human Protozoan Parasites in Wastewater and Hospital Effluents.Journal of clinical practice and research · 2023Article
- Recency-Weighted Statistical Modeling Approach to Attribute Illnesses Caused by 4 Pathogens to Food Sources Using Outbreak Data, United States.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Animal agriculture exposures among Minnesota residents with zoonotic enteric infections, 2012-2016.Epidemiology and infection · 2020Article
- Estimates of the burden of illness for eight enteric pathogens associated with animal contact in Canada.Epidemiology and infection · 2017Article
- Burden of Disease Attributed to Waterborne Transmission of Selected Enteric Pathogens, Australia, 2010.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
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- Enteric outbreak surveillance in British Columbia, 2009-2013.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveEnteric illness represents a significant burden of illness in Canada and internationally. Building on previous research, an expert elicitation was undertaken to explore the routes of transmission for 28 pathogens involved in enteric illness in Canada. This article considers the subcategories of foodborne, waterborne, and animal contact transmission.
methodsAs part of an expert elicitation, 31 experts were asked to provide estimates of source attribution for subcategories of foodborne (n = 15), waterborne (n = 10), and animal contact (n = 3) transmission. The results from an online survey were combined using triangular probability distributions, and median and 90% credible intervals were produced. The total proportion and estimated number of cases of enteric illness attributable to each type of food commodity, water source, and animal exposure route were calculated using results from the larger elicitation survey and from a recent Canadian foodborne burden of illness study (Thomas et al., 2013).
resultsThirty experts provided foodborne subcategory estimates for 15/28 pathogens, waterborne subcategory estimates for 14/28 pathogens and animal contact subcategory estimates for 5/28. The elicitation identified raw produce, recreational water, and farm animal contact as important risk factors for enteric illness. These results also highlighted the complexity of transmission, with greater uncertainty for certain pathogens and routes of transmission.
conclusionsThis study is the first of its kind to explore subcategories of foodborne, waterborne, and animal contact transmission across such a range of enteric pathogens. Despite inherent uncertainty, these estimates present an important quantitative synthesis of the roles of foodborne commodities, water sources, and pathways of animal contact in the transmission of enteric illness in Canada.
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