Expert elicitation is a useful tool to explore sources of uncertainty and to answer questions
where data are expensive or difficult to collect. It has been used across a variety of …

Enteric illness contributes to a significant burden of illness in Canada and globally.
Understanding its sources is a critical step in identifying and preventing health risks. Expert …

Objectives: To estimate the fraction of human cases of enterically transmitted illness by five
major pathways (food, environment, direct animal contact, human–human transmission, and …

With increased interest in source attribution of foodborne pathogens, there is a need to sort
and assess the applicability of currently available methods. Herewith we reviewed the most …

For food safety policy, it is important to know not only the fraction of incidence of human
illness due to specific pathogens that is attributable to specific foods, but also what is …

Attributing human cases of foodborne diseases to putative sources of infection is crucial for
identifying targets for interventions in the food production chain (Pires et al., 2009). Beyond …

Foodborne diseases are an important cause of human illness worldwide. Humans acquire
these infections from a variety of sources and routes of transmission. Many efforts have been …

A variety of approaches to attribute foodborne diseases to specific sources are available,
including hazard occurrence analysis, epidemiological methods, intervention studies, and …

Illnesses transmitted by food and water cause a major disease burden in the United States
despite advancements in food safety, water treatment, and sanitation. We report estimates …

Analysis of foodborne outbreak data is one approach to estimate the proportion of human
cases of specific enteric diseases attributable to a specific food item (food attribution) …