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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationKenya Medical Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationMount Kenya Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen_US
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Healthen_US
cg.contributor.donorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorMedical Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorWellcome Trusten_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierLian Thomas: 0000-0001-8447-1210en_US
cg.creator.identifierWilliam de Glanville: 0000-0003-2474-0356en_US
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Cook: 0000-0001-6081-8363en_US
cg.creator.identifierMark Bronsvoort: 0000-0002-3271-8485en_US
cg.creator.identifierEric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005371en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1935-2735en_US
cg.issue2en_US
cg.journalPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseasesen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen_US
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen_US
cg.subject.ilriPIGSen_US
cg.volume11en_US
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Lian F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGlanville, William A. deen_US
dc.contributor.authorCook, Elizabeth A.J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBronsvoort, B.M. de C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHandel, Ian G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWamae, C.N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKariuki, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFèvre, Eric M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-23T09:19:03Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-02-23T09:19:03Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/79991en_US
dc.titleModelling the risk of Taenia solium exposure from pork produced in western Kenyaen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2017-02-17en_US
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_US
dcterms.issued2017-02-17en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen_US
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen_US
dcterms.subjectinfectious diseasesen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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