Learn about PARADISE project outputs for parasite detection and evaluation

Q. Are you interested in foodborne parasites?

Q. Are you concerned about Giardia & Cryptosporidium causing gastrointestinal diseases?

Q. Do you want to learn new approaches for detecting, isolating & evaluating these zoonotic parasites?

The PARADISE project successfully delivered metagenomics techniques and innovative enrichment strategies applicable to food matrices for Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia duodenalis pathogens.

Some of their project outputs include:

1. Whole genome sequence (WGS) data: 130 WGS from C. parvum, 50 WGS from G. duodenalis assemblage B & 70 WGS from G. duodenalis assemblage A.

2. Critical evaluation of the applicability of metagenomics approaches for detecting parasites in various biological, water & food samples.

3. Refinement of workflows for the analysis of complex data that considered the specific biology of parasitic pathogens.

4. Development of new multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) schemes for both C. parvum and G. duodenalis assemblage B.

These project outputs have helped to standardise typing methods for these zoonotic parasites that will assist in future outbreak investigations.

​More information about these project outputs and their applications is available here.