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Barlow A, Roy K, Hawkins K, Ankarah AA, Rosenthal B. A review of testing and assurance methods for Trichinella surveillance programs. Food Waterborne Parasitol 2021; 24:e00129. [PMID: 34458599 PMCID: PMC8379475 DOI: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2021.e00129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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While global cases of trichinellosis have fallen since pork regulation began, the disease remains a danger to pork and animal game consumers as well as a liability to producers. Managing food safety risk and supporting agricultural trade requires cost-effective and sensitive diagnostic methods. Several means exist to inspect pork for parasitic infections. Here, we review literature concerning the sensitivity, specificity, and cost of these methods. We found that artificial digestion coupled with optical microscopy to be the best method for verification of Trichinella larva free pork due to its cost efficiency, high specificity, and reliability. Serological techniques such as ELISA are useful for epidemiological surveillance of swine. While current PCR techniques are quick and useful for diagnosing species-specific infections, they are not cost efficient for large-scale testing. However, as PCR techniques, including Lateral Flow- Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (LF-RPA), improve and continue to reduce cost, such methods may ultimately succeed artificial digestion. We compared cost, sensitivity, and specificity of available and foreseeable tools. The magnetic stir bar method remains the gold standard for Trichinella surveillance. Serological methods miss early infections but offer promise for use in surveillance. Isothermal methods offer future promise given their speed, accuracy, and ease of use. Genetic methods are uneconomical but advances have promise to reduce cost.
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- Alec Barlow
- USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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- USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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- USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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- USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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- USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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de Souza Rosés T, Andreolla AP, de Figueiredo Soveral L, Vieira MIB, Kich JD, Frandoloso R, Kreutz LC. Synthetic gene as target to assess the sensitivity of PCR to detect Trichinella spp. larvae in meat from a non-endemic region. Trop Anim Health Prod 2019; 52:619-623. [PMID: 31444664 DOI: 10.1007/s11250-019-02049-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Trichinellosis is a zoonotic disease exotic in Brazil but commonly found worldwide including South American countries like Argentina. International trading of swine meat needs an official Trichinella-free diagnosis commonly carried out by pepsin-HCl digestion of diaphragm tissue fragments followed by microscopic examination for the presence or absence of Trichinella larvae. The easiness of this diagnostic method allows it to be performed at slaughtering plants but, in contrast, it lacks sensitivity and does not allow species differentiation, which is fundamental for determining geographical and species distribution of different genotypes. In our study, we aimed to evaluate a highly sensitive diagnostic method based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that would allow us to detect and classify different species of Trichinella. Thus, we designed a synthetic gene and selected five sets of primers targeting specific regions of the Trichinella genome. The synthetic gene was cloned into a plasmid and then used to optimize PCR conditions. Using our PCR, we were able to detect 0.001 pg of the synthetic gene, which corresponded to 0.01 larvae. Then, we collected 175 samples of Suidae (domestic and wild boars) diaphragm fragments that were pooled into groups, digested with pepsin-HCl, and had the DNA extracted for analysis by PCR. The clinical samples evaluated were negative by PCR. Our results indicate that the PCR-based method might be a useful diagnostic method complementary to the pepsin-HCl digestion method currently in use, mostly in non-endemic areas.
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- Thiago de Souza Rosés
- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAMV), Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia Avançada - Programa de Mestrado em Bioexperimentação, Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus I, Bairro São José, BR 285, km 292, Passo Fundo, RS, CEP 99052-900, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAMV), Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia Avançada - Programa de Mestrado em Bioexperimentação, Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus I, Bairro São José, BR 285, km 292, Passo Fundo, RS, CEP 99052-900, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAMV), Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia Avançada - Programa de Mestrado em Bioexperimentação, Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus I, Bairro São José, BR 285, km 292, Passo Fundo, RS, CEP 99052-900, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) -Suínos e Aves, Rodovia BR-153, Concórdia, SC, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAMV), Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia Avançada - Programa de Mestrado em Bioexperimentação, Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus I, Bairro São José, BR 285, km 292, Passo Fundo, RS, CEP 99052-900, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAMV), Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia Avançada - Programa de Mestrado em Bioexperimentação, Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus I, Bairro São José, BR 285, km 292, Passo Fundo, RS, CEP 99052-900, Brazil.
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Franssen F, Takumi K, van der Giessen J, Swart A. Assessing the risk of human trichinellosis from pigs kept under controlled and non-controlled housing in Europe. Food Waterborne Parasitol 2018; 10:14-22. [PMID: 32095597 PMCID: PMC7033976 DOI: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2018.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To support risk-based approach to prevent human trichinellosis, we estimated the human incidence for pigs originating from controlled and non-controlled housing, using a quantitative microbial risk assessment model for Trichinella (QMRA-T). Moreover, the effect of test sensitivity on human trichinellosis incidence from pigs from non-controlled housing was quantified. The estimated annual risk from pigs from non-controlled housing was 59,443 human trichinellosis cases without testing at meat inspection and 832 (95%CI 346-1410) cases with Trichinella testing, thus preventing 98.6% of trichinellosis cases per year by testing at meat inspection. Using the QMRA-T, a slight decrease in test sensitivity had a significant effect on the number of human trichinellosis cases from this housing type. The estimated annual risk for pigs from controlled housing was <0.002 (range 0.000-0.007) human cases with- and <0.010 (0.001-0.023) cases without Trichinella testing at meat inspection, which does not differ significantly (p = 0.2075). In practice, this means no cases per year irrespective of Trichinella testing. Thus controlled housing effectively prevents infection and Trichinella testing does not contribute to food safety for this housing type. Not testing for Trichinella requires evidence based full compliance with regulations for controlled housing.
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- Frits Franssen
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Zolfaghari Emameh R, Purmonen S, Sukura A, Parkkila S. Surveillance and diagnosis of zoonotic foodborne parasites. Food Sci Nutr 2017; 6:3-17. [PMID: 29387356 PMCID: PMC5778216 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Foodborne parasites are a source of human parasitic infection. Zoonotic infections of humans arise from a variety of domestic and wild animals, including sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses, pigs, boars, bears, felines, canids, amphibians, reptiles, poultry, and aquatic animals such as fishes and shrimp. Therefore, the implementation of efficient, accessible, and controllable inspection policies for livestock, fisheries, slaughterhouses, and meat processing and packaging companies is highly recommended. In addition, more attention should be paid to the education of auditors from the quality control (QC) and assurance sectors, livestock breeders, the fishery sector, and meat inspection veterinarians in developing countries with high incidence of zoonotic parasitic infections. Furthermore, both the diagnosis of zoonotic parasitic infections by inexpensive, accessible, and reliable identification methods and the organization of effective control systems with sufficient supervision of product quality are other areas to which more attention should be paid. In this review, we present some examples of successful inspection policies and recent updates on present conventional, serologic, and molecular diagnostic methods for zoonotic foodborne parasites from both human infection and animal‐derived foods.
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- Reza Zolfaghari Emameh
- Department of Energy and Environmental Biotechnology Division of Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB) Tehran Iran
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- Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences University of Tampere Tampere Finland
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences University of Tampere Tampere Finland.,Fimlab Laboratories Ltd and Tampere University Hospital Tampere Finland
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Thompson RCA. Parasites and food: ripe for exploitation. Trends Parasitol 2014; 30:1-3. [PMID: 24373805 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2013.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 09/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Parasites are often exploited for emotive or political purposes. This is especially so for a number of foodborne parasitic zoonoses, where this exploitation may not necessarily best serve the public good.
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- R C Andrew Thompson
- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
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Thompson RCA. Parasite zoonoses and wildlife: One Health, spillover and human activity. Int J Parasitol 2013; 43:1079-88. [PMID: 23892130 PMCID: PMC7126848 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2013] [Revised: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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This review examines parasite zoonoses and wildlife in the context of the One Health triad that encompasses humans, domestic animals, wildlife and the changing ecosystems in which they live. Human (anthropogenic) activities influence the flow of all parasite infections within the One Health triad and the nature and impact of resulting spillover events are examined. Examples of spillover from wildlife to humans and/or domestic animals, and vice versa, are discussed, as well as emerging issues, particularly the need for parasite surveillance of wildlife populations. Emphasis is given to Trypanosoma cruzi and related species in Australian wildlife, Trichinella, Echinococcus, Giardia, Baylisascaris, Toxoplasma and Leishmania.
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- R C Andrew Thompson
- School of Veterinary and Health Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
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