Veterinarska stanica, Vol. 51 No. 5, 2020.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.46419/vs.51.5.4
The most important parasitic zoonoses and their public health significance in European countries
Davor Balić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-0092
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Veterinarski zavod Vinkovci, Vinkovci, Hrvatska
Mario Škrivanko
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Veterinarski zavod Vinkovci, Vinkovci, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The annual workshop of the European Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURLP) at the Higher Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanita) in Rome, is an opportunity for participants to become better acquainted with the current state concerning the most important parasitic zoonoses in Europe. During the two-day workshop, representatives of national reference laboratories (NRL) give oral or poster presentations on the epidemiological and epizootic particularities of parasitic zoonoses in their countries over the past year. The presented data particularly relate to the annual review of registered cases of affected persons, sources of invasion, manner of spread and transmission of invasion, research to test for the presence, resistance and survival of development stages of parasites in the environment, and descriptions of unusual appearances of rare and invasive zoonoses recorded in European countries. The epizootiology data pertain to research and surveillance of the presence of individual species of parasites and their development stages in hosts and wild animals, and their potential significance for human health. The data at the EU level are processed and summarized and trends extracted by the representatives of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANCO). In addition to representatives of EU Member States, representatives of non-EU states also attend the workshops, such as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, North Macedonia and Serbia. These countries are often included in joint projects with EU Member States, and/or wish to be informed of the current trends in the field of parasitic zoonoses within the EU. Special attention is given to lectures by invited speakers in the field of parasitology from Europe and the world. They present their results and discoveries emerging from the work of their teams on individual parasitosis, and their significance for public health. The objective of this paper was to provide an overview of echinococcosis and trichinellosis as the most important parasitoses for public health in the EU, and to inform of the significance and particularities of opisthorchiasis, which was presented in detail at the annual workshop held in 2018. We reported on the unexpectedly large number of persons contracting trichinellosis in Croatia in 2017, with several epidemics and sporadic cases. The largest epidemic occurred following the consumption of meat products made from wild boar meat, which is the first official record of its invasion in the meat of another species, other than domesticated pig, in Croatia. Due to its epidemiological characteristics, trichinellosis remains the most significant public health parasitosis in Croatia.
Ključne riječi
public health; echinococcosis; trichinellosis; opisthorchiasis
Hrčak ID:
238186
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2020.
Posjeta: 2.379 *