ReviewFood and waterborne parasitology2025
Detection of parasites in food and water matrices by shotgun metagenomics: A narrative review.
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- Gastrointestinal parasites of red and roe deer investigated via metagenomics and histology.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Ecological and methodological insights from genetic and coprological profiling of gastrointestinal communities in wild howler monkeys.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Next-Gen intestinal parasite detection: Leveraging metataxonomics for improved diagnosis of intestinal protists and helminths.PloS one · 2026Article
- Flood-associated disease outbreaks and transmission in Southeast Asia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Many helminths and protozoa are transmitted to humans through the consumption of contaminated food or water, and this underlines the importance of methods for their detection in these matrices. Due to the difficulties in isolating parasites prior to their identification, indirect detection methods are used, mostly relying upon targeted amplification of nucleic acids via PCR and/or qPCR. With the development of high throughput sequencing technologies, an untargeted detection method, shotgun metagenomics, became available. By sequencing the total DNA extracted from a given source, and through bioinformatics analyses of the sequencing reads, shotgun metagenomics allows profiling the entire microbial community therein present, including eukaryotes and, therefore, parasites. In this article, we reviewed the studies that specifically addressed the detection of parasites in food (
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