World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

Paul R. Torgerson; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Nicolas Praet; Niko Speybroeck; Arve Lee Willingham; Fumiko Kasuga; Mohammad B. Rokni; Xiao-Nong Zhou; Eric M. Fèvre; Banchob Sripa; Neyla Gargouri; Thomas Fürst; Christine M. Budke; Hélène Carabin; Martyn D. Kirk; Frederick J. Angulo; Arie Havelaar; Nilanthi de Silva

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2015-12-03

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PLOS Medicine

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In this data synthesis, Paul Robert Torgerson and colleagues estimate the global and regional disease burden of 11 foodborne parasitic diseases.

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We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the WHO Secretariat over the life of the FERG initiative, particularly Amy Cawthorne, Tim Corrigan, Tanja Kuchenmüller, Yuki Minato, Kurt Straif and Claudia Stein. We acknowledge the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Seattle, WA, USA) for providing data on the global burden of selected diseases.

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Global health,Parasitic diseases,Public and occupational health,Toxoplasmosis,Cysticercosis,Echinococcosis,Epilepsy,Foodborne diseases

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Torgerson PR, Devleesschauwer B, Praet N, Speybroeck N, Willingham AL, Kasuga F, et al. (2015) World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis. PLoS Med 12(12): e1001920. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001920

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http://hdl.handle.net/11244/49253

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001920

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