Project leader: Dr Joke van der Giessen
Project collaborators:
Olgica Djurković-Djaković, Ivana Klun, Aleksandra Nikolić, Branko Bobić, Aleksandra Uzelac, Irena Rajnpreht
Project number: GP/EFSA/BIOHAZ/2013/01
Duration of the project: November 2013 – November 2015
Leading Institution: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Description of the project:
The overall goal of project was to gain information and knowledge on the presence (and viability) of T. gondii cysts in meat and other edible tissues in main meat‐producing animals, and its relationship with T. gondii seroprevalence in animals by carrying out an extensive literature search and review of available data on the subject, as well as performing experimental studies on T. gondii in meat‐producing livestock species in the EU in order to assess the relationship between indirect detection methods (antibody detection), and direct detection methods of infective cysts in meat and other edible tissues (by bio‐assay).