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<p>Within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is stated that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living, which ensures, as well as their family, health and well-being, and food, thereby ensuring adequate nutrition. One of the major threats to overcome this is to ensure food security, which becomes particularly challenging in developing countries due to the high incidence of parasitic diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO), considers it one of the main causes of morbidity, closely linked to poverty and related to inadequate personal hygiene, consumption of raw food, lack of sanitary services, limited access to drinking water and fecal contamination in the environment. It is estimated that more than a fifth of the world’s population is infected by one or several intestinal parasites, and that in many countries of Central and South America the average percentage of infected people is 45%, being <italic>Taenia solium, Echinococcus granulosus, Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium</italic> spp<italic>, Entamoeba histolytica, Trichinella spiralis, Ascaris</italic> spp<italic>, Trypanosoma cruzi and Fasciola hepatica</italic> some of the most important ones in the neotropics. One of the main reasons why these diseases are diffi cult to control is t he ignorance of their lifecycles, as well as symptoms and current epidemiology of the disease, which contributes to a late or erroneous diagnosis. The present work aims to discuss and make public the current knowledge as well as the general characteristics of these diseases to the general audience.</p></abstract>

Within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is stated that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living, which ensures, as well as their family, health and well-being, and food, thereby ensuring adequate nutrition. One of the major threats to overcome this is to ensure food security, which becomes particularly challenging in developing countries due to the high incidence of parasitic diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO), considers it one of the main causes of morbidity, closely linked to poverty and related to inadequate personal hygiene, consumption of raw food, lack of sanitary services, limited access to drinking water and fecal contamination in the environment. It is estimated that more than a fifth of the world’s population is infected by one or several intestinal parasites, and that in many countries of Central and South America the average percentage of infected people is 45%, being Taenia solium, Echinococcus granulosus, Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium spp, Entamoeba histolytica, Trichinella spiralis, Ascaris spp, Trypanosoma cruzi and Fasciola hepatica some of the most important ones in the neotropics. One of the main reasons why these diseases are diffi cult to control is t he ignorance of their lifecycles, as well as symptoms and current epidemiology of the disease, which contributes to a late or erroneous diagnosis. The present work aims to discuss and make public the current knowledge as well as the general characteristics of these diseases to the general audience.

Foodborne Parasitic Diseases in the Neotropics – a review

Helminthologia

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Within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is stated that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living, which ensures, as well as their...

Foodborne Parasitic Diseases in the Neotropics – a review

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Jun 08, 2021

Page range: 119 - 133

Received: Dec 23, 2020

Accepted: Feb 08, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0022

Keywords
Foodborne, parasitic, diseases, helminths, protozoa

© 2021 F. Chávez-Ruvalcaba, M. I. Chávez-Ruvalcaba, K. Moran Santibañez, J. L. Muñoz-Carrillo, A. León Coria, R. Reyna Martínez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Foodborne Parasitic Diseases in the Neotropics – a review

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Jun 08, 2021

Page range: 119 - 133

Received: Dec 23, 2020

Accepted: Feb 08, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0022

KeywordsFoodborne, parasitic, diseases, helminths, protozoa

© 2021 F. Chávez-Ruvalcaba, M. I. Chávez-Ruvalcaba, K. Moran Santibañez, J. L. Muñoz-Carrillo, A. León Coria, R. Reyna Martínez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fig. 1

Keywords
Foodborne, parasitic, diseases, helminths, protozoa