FAWPAR Corner

AIMS AND SCOPE

Food and Waterborne Parasitology publishes high quality research articles, reviews, special issues, and reports on all aspects of basic or applied research on parasites that are transmissible to humans from food or water, either by ingestion or inhalation or skin penetration.

The relevant groups and specific examples of parasites include those below:

✓ Protozoa: Acanthamoeba, Balantioides (Balantidium), Blastocystis, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Cystoisospora, Giardia, Entamoeba, Sarcocystis, Toxoplasma, Naegleria, Trypanosoma cruzi

✓ Nematodes: Angiostrongylus, Anisakidae, Ascaris, Baylisacaris, Capillaria, Dracunculus, Toxocara, Trichinella, Trichuris

✓ Cestodes: Diphyllobothrium, Echinococcus, Hymenolepis, Spirometra, Taenia

✓ Trematodes: Clonorchis, Fasciola, Fasciolopsis, Echinostomatidae, Heterophyes , Metagonimus, Metorchis, Opisthorchis, Paragonimus, Schistosoma, Schistosomatidae (cause of swimmers’ itch/cercarial dermatitis)

✓ Microsporidia: Encephalitozoon, Enterocytozoon

TYPES OF RELEVANT STUDIES

  • Surveys, ecology, epidemiology, risk assessments, mitigation and control, test methodologies, basic biology, morphology, cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, host-parasite relationships, and chemotherapies;
  • Pertinent food includes products of animal or plant origin that are wild or domesticated, and consumed by people.
  • Animals and plants from both terrestrial and aquatic sources are included, as well as studies related to potable and other types of water used by humans, which serve to harbor, propagate, or disseminate the relevant parasites.
  • Evidence of the emergence of relevant parasites and interactions among domestic animals, wildlife, people, and the environment (One Health focus) are of interest. The impact of such parasites on the health and welfare of humans is viewed as very important and within scope of the journal. Manuscripts on associations between food and waterborne parasitic diseases and lifestyle, culture and economies are also welcome.

ARTICLE TYPES

  • The primary form of publication in the journal is a full-length paper describing scientifically-sound original research studies;
  • Brief Communications of original research findings;
  • Special Issues on interesting topics, or emerging themes may be solicited by the journal, or proposed by authors;
  • Topical review articles or reports based on keynote presentations at conferences or workshops will be considered.

Interested in submitting to FAWPAR?

Full instructions to authors are available HERE.  

Still have questions? Ask the editors:

Alvin Gajadhar, Editor-in-Chief |  alvin.gajadhar@gmail.com

Ray Gamble, Associate Editor |  hrgamble@gmail.com

Olgica Djurkovic, Associate Editor |  olgicadj@imi.bg.ac.rs

Lucy Robertson, Associate Editor |  lucy.robertson@nmbu.no

Special publication discounts offered to members of EFP member organizations:

25% off the regular price!

Subject to national societies having submitted annually updated membership lists

FAWPAR AT EMOP 2024

 

The EFP and the IAFWP in cooperation with the Organizing Committee of EMOP2024 are organizing

a FAWPAR session at the conference on Tuesday 27 August 2024.

 

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SCHEDULE
Tuesday 27 August 2024

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14.30–18.00 | Food and Waterborne Parasitology Session

Organisers: Lucy Robertson and Olgica Djurkovic-Djakovic

 

14:30-16.00 | Session I (Plenary lecture and invited talks)

14.30–14.40 Introduction: Olgica Djurkovic-Djakovic, Alvin Gajadhar and Ray Gamble

 

14.40–15.10 | PLENARY LECTURE:

Lucy Robertson: Transmission of parasites to people via food and water:

where are we now and should we care?

 

15.10–15.25 Simone Mario Caccio: Detection of protozoa in water and food by metagenomics:

approaches, results and challenges

15.25–15.40 Jeroen Saeij: Identification of genetic determinants for Toxoplasma gondii oocyst

environmental resistance

15.40–15.55 Rachel Chalmers: Cryptosporidium outbreaks linked to food and water;

what have we learnt?

 

15.55–16.00 | Poster Presentations and Discussion

Sasa Vasilev: Trichinella infection in Southeastern Europe

Rose-Anne Lavergne: Unusual food poisoning due to massive infestation with Anisakis simplex

sensus lato

Aleksandra Penezić: Synanthropic birds and rodents as indicators for Toxoplasma gondii oocyst

contamination in urban and suburban environments

Jolanta Zdybel: Parasitological contamination of arable soil in selected regions of Poland –

preliminary research

Nikola Betić: Freshwater ecosystems – an underexplored reservoir of zoonotic parasites

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16.00–16.15 Coffee Break

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16.15–18.00 | Session II (Invited talks & Panel discussion)

Organisers: Lucy Robertson and Olgica Djurkovic-Djakovic

 

16.15–16.30 Ivona Mladineo: Fish-borne parasites of importance for EU:

status on identification, detection and treatment in fish products

16.30–16.45 Adriano Casulli: Community risk of environmental-borne cystic echinococcosis:

lesson learned from PERITAS project in South America

 

16.45–18.00 | Panel Discussion

 

 

FAWPAR Special Issue to follow EMOP2024

FAWPAR will publish a Special Issue dedicated to relevant presentations at EMOP2024. The SI will include a series of invited, as well as open contributed papers.

Anyone presenting at EMOP2024 within the scope of FAWPAR will be eligible to submit a manuscript for publication in the SI.

A limited number of waivers will be available to cover the open access publication fee, and will be awarded to invited speakers, and on a competitive basis to students and others who apply. 

Anyone presenting within the scope of FAWPAR at EMOP-2024 will be eligible to submit a manuscript for publication in the SI. The journal’s Guide for Authors and peer review process will apply to all submissions.

Guest editors:

Alvin Gajadhar – University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Olgica Djurkovic-Djakovic – University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Lucy Robertson – Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway

Ray Gamble – National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Washington, USA

Manuscript submission information

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31st March 2025

The journal’s submission platform: Editorial Manager® is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of “VSI:EMOP 2024” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage.

Keywords: foodborne; waterborne; genomics; epidemiology; ecology; interventions; multidisciplinarity

Find out more. 

FAWPAR Awards at EMOP 2024

To mark the partnership with the EFP, FAWPAR will award two prizes for best presentations by students / emerging scientists.

The prizes include a cash award which will match the registration fee paid by the recipients, and one of these will additionally include a full waiver of the publication fee in the FAWPAR Special Issue (SI) devoted to EMOP.

Anyone who applied for the YSA – if the subject matter of their paper falls within the FAWPAR scope – will be considered for the FAWPAR awards as well, subject to confirming eligibility to publish their EMOP paper in the FAWPAR SI if selected.

Recipients of the awards will be selected by the FAWPAR Editor-in-Chief Alvin Gajadhar and the three associate editors, Ray Gamble, Lucy Robertson and Olgica Djurkovic, and will be announced at the EMOP 2024 Closing ceremony.

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