Food and drinking water as sources of pathogenic protozoans: An update

F Rossi, S Santonicola, C Amadoro, L Marino… - Applied Sciences, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
This narrative review was aimed at collecting updated knowledge on the risk factors,
illnesses caused, and measures for the prevention of protozoan infections transmitted by …

Field study of parasitic contamination of fruits, vegetables and leafy greens in the Ecuadorian Andes

LC González-Ramírez, P Djabayan-Djibeyan… - …, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Raw vegetables have been considered vehicles of enteroparasites. South
American countries are among the most important exporters of fresh vegetables, including …

Evaluation of the Increased Genetic Resolution and Utility for Source Tracking of a Recently Developed Method for Genoty** Cyclospora cayetanensis

SR Leonard, MK Mammel, S Almeria, ST Gebru… - Microorganisms, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Cyclospora cayetanensis is a foodborne parasite that causes cyclosporiasis, an enteric
illness in humans. Genoty** methods are used to genetically discriminate between …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclospora Genotypic Variations and Associated Epidemiologic Characteristics, United States, 2018–2021

J Shen, VA Cama, D Jacobson… - Emerging Infectious …, 2025‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Seasonal cyclosporiasis outbreaks occur in the United States every year. To better
understand the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed a novel …

An improved framework for detecting discrete epidemiologically meaningful partitions in hierarchically clustered genetic data

DK Jacobson, R Low, MM Plucinski… - Bioinformatics …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Motivation Hierarchical clustering of microbial genotypes has the limitation that hierarchical
clusters are nested, where smaller groups of related isolates exist within larger groups that …

[PDF][PDF] Protozoan Infections Acquired from Food or Drinking Water: An Update

F Rossi, C Amadoro, S Santonicola, L Marino… - Preprints. org, 2024‏ - preprints.org
This review summarizes the most recent developments of research on protozoan parasite
infections acquired through food and drinking water and is aimed at gathering updated …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights on the genetic population structure of human-infecting Cyclospora spp. and evidence for rapid subtype selection among isolates from the USA

DK Jacobson, AC Peterson, Y Qvarnstrom… - Current Research in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Human-infecting Cyclospora was recently characterized as three species, two of which (C.
cayetanensis and C. ashfordi) are currently responsible for all known human infections in …

Cyclospora Comparative Genomics

J Barratt, A Peterson, Y Qvarnstrom - Recent Advances in Parasitomics …, 2025‏ - Springer
Human-infecting Cyclospora species have been a recognized cause of seasonal food-borne
outbreaks of diarrheal illness in the United States and Canada since the 1990s. Prior to …