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Research Project: Foodborne Parasites and their Impact on Food Safety

Location: Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory

Title: Hastening progress in Cyclospora requires studying Eimeria surrogates

Author
item Tucker, Matthew
item Khan, Asis
item Jenkins, Mark
item Dubey, Jitender
item Rosenthal, Benjamin

Submitted to: Microorganisms
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/3/2022
Publication Date: 10/6/2022
Citation: Tucker, M.S., Khan, A., Jenkins, M.C., Dubey, J.P., Rosenthal, B.M. 2022. Hastening progress in Cyclospora requires studying Eimeria surrogates. Microorganisms. 10(10) 1977. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10101977.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10101977

Interpretive Summary: How much can produce growers, packers, and retailers do to minimize the public health burden, reputational harm, and expense posed by Cyclospora? Produce growers, packers, and retailers understand that outbreaks of enteric disease risk costly product recalls, imperil public health, and undermine public confidence. But available data fail to firmly establish what steps hold greatest promise to mitigate these risks and costs, or the extent to which improvements to produce safety will reduce the public health burden. Here, we review present obstacles and opportunities to achieving answers, emphasizing opportunities to clear longstanding barriers imposed by the scarcity of Cyclospora oocysts by studying surrogate organisms that can be generated by the millions and studied in their natural hosts.

Technical Abstract: How much can produce growers, packers, and retailers do to minimize the public health burden, reputational harm, and expense posed by Cyclospora? Produce growers, packers, and retailers understand that outbreaks of enteric disease risk costly product recalls, imperil public health, and undermine public confidence. But available data fail to firmly establish what steps hold greatest promise to mitigate these risks and costs, or the extent to which improvements to produce safety will reduce the public health burden. Here, we review present obstacles and opportunities to achieving answers, emphasizing opportunities to clear longstanding barriers imposed by the scarcity of Cyclospora oocysts by studying surrogate organisms that can be generated by the millions and studied in their natural hosts.