25 research outputs found
Parasite responses to pollution: what we know and where we go in ‘Environmental Parasitology’
Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting the probability of occurrence of Oncomegas wageneri (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) in the southern Gulf of Mexico
Histopathological changes caused by the metacestodes of Neogryporhynchus cheilancristrotus (Wedl, 1855) in the gut of the gibel carp, Carassius gibelio
Spatial heterogeneity in parasite infections at different spatial scales in an intertidal bivalve
Temperature and light effects on Trichobilharzia szidati cercariae with implications for a risk analysis
CICHLIDOGYRUS SCLEROSUS (MONOGENEA: ANCYROCEPHALINAE) AND ITS HOST, THE NILE TILAPIA (OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS), AS BIOINDICATORS OF CHEMICAL POLLUTION
Food and Environmental Parasitology in Canada: A Network for the Facilitation of Collaborative Research
Parasitic diseases are of considerable public health
significance in Canada, particularly in rural and remote
areas. Food- and waterborne parasites contribute
significantly to the overall number of parasitic infections
reported in Canada. While data on the incidence of some
of these diseases are available, knowledge of the true
burden of infection by the causative agents in Canadians
is somewhat limited. A number of centers of expertise
in Canada study various aspects of parasitology, but few
formal societies or networks of parasitologists currently
exist in Canada, and previously none focused specifically
on food or environmental transmission. The recently
established Food and Environmental Parasitology Network
(FEPN) brings together Canadian researchers, regulators
and public health officials with an active involvement in
issues related to these increasingly important fields.
The major objectives of the Network include identifying
research gaps, facilitating discussion and collaborative
research, developing standardized methods, generating
data for risk assessments, policies, and guidelines, and
providing expert advice and testing in support of outbreak
investigations and surveillance studies. Issues considered
by the FEPN include contaminated foods and infected food
animals, potable and non-potable water, Northern and
Aboriginal issues, zoonotic transmission, and epidemiolog