Modelling the risk of Taenia solium exposure from pork produced in western Kenya

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationKenya Medical Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationMount Kenya Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorMedical Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorWellcome Trusten
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierLian Thomas: 0000-0001-8447-1210en
cg.creator.identifierWilliam de Glanville: 0000-0003-2474-0356en
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Cook: 0000-0001-6081-8363en
cg.creator.identifierMark Bronsvoort: 0000-0002-3271-8485en
cg.creator.identifierEric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005371en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1935-2735en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseasesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen
cg.subject.ilriPIGSen
cg.volume11en
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Lian F.en
dc.contributor.authorGlanville, William A. deen
dc.contributor.authorCook, Elizabeth A.J.en
dc.contributor.authorBronsvoort, B.M. de C.en
dc.contributor.authorHandel, Ian G.en
dc.contributor.authorWamae, C.N.en
dc.contributor.authorKariuki, S.en
dc.contributor.authorFèvre, Eric M.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-23T09:19:03Zen
dc.date.available2017-02-23T09:19:03Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/79991
dc.titleModelling the risk of Taenia solium exposure from pork produced in western Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractThe tapeworm Taenia solium is the parasite responsible for neurocysticercosis, a neglected tropical disease of public health importance, thought to cause approximately 1/3 of epilepsy cases across endemic regions. The consumption of undercooked infected pork perpetuates the parasite’s life-cycle through the establishment of adult tapeworm infections in the community. Reducing the risk associated with pork consumption in the developing world is therefore a public health priority. The aim of this study was to estimate the risk of any one pork meal in western Kenya containing a potentially infective T. solium cysticercus at the point of consumption, an aspect of the parasite transmission that has not been estimated before. To estimate this, we used a quantitative food chain risk assessment model built in the @RISK add-on to Microsoft Excel. This model indicates that any one pork meal consumed in western Kenya has a 0.006 (99% Uncertainty Interval (U.I). 0.0002–0.0164) probability of containing at least one viable T. solium cysticercus at the point of consumption and therefore being potentially infectious to humans. This equates to 22,282 (99% U.I. 622–64,134) potentially infective pork meals consumed in the course of one year within Busia District alone. This model indicates a high risk of T. solium infection associated with pork consumption in western Kenya and the work presented here can be built upon to investigate the efficacy of various mitigation strategies for this locality.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2017-02-17en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationThomas, L.F., Glanville, W.A. de, Cook, E.A.J., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Handel, I., Wamae, C.N., Kariuki, S. and Fèvre, E.M. 2017. Modelling the risk of Taenia solium exposure from pork produced in western Kenya. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(2): e0005371.en
dcterms.issued2017-02-17en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen
dcterms.subjectinfectious diseasesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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