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. 2019 Jun 6;14(6):e0216545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216545

Table 1. Animal source foods involved in exposure to 13 different pathogens [9, 19].

Animal source foods
Hazards Beef Pork Poultry Small ruminant meat* Dairy Eggs Finfish Shellfish1
Campylobacter spp. × × × × ×
Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli × × × ×
Non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica × × × × × × × ×
Cryptosporidium spp. ×
Brucella spp. × × × ×
Mycobacterium bovis u
Toxoplasma gondii × × × × × ×
Taenia solium u
Trichinella spp. u2
Clonorchis sinensis u
Intestinal flukes u3
Opisthorchis spp. u
Paragonimus spp. u

×: hazard transmitted by this and other food groups (animal source or not), included in expert elicitation.

u: hazard transmitted only by one food group.

1 Including crustaceans.

2 Including wild boar meat. We neglect the small proportion of cases associated with meat from horses, bears and other animals.

3 Includes selected species of the families Echinostomatidae, Gymnophallidae, Heterophyidae, Nanophyetidae, Neodiplostomidae and Plagiorchiidae. We neglect transmission by other foods, such as shellfish, frogs, snails and snakes.

*Small ruminant meat primarily includes goat, sheep and lamb meat