NR ASZS
AU Grist,E.P.
TI Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy risk assessment: the UK experience.
QU Risk Analysis 2005 Jun; 25(3): 519-32
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) risk assessments undertaken in the United Kingdom have mainly had the objective of determining the risks posed to humans from exposure to the causal agents associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). In this article, I examine 19 of these risk assessments published to date and consider how their results might be influenced by underlying model assumptions and methodology. Three separate aspects common to all the assessments are infective load estimation, exposure pathway identification, and risk estimation. These are each discussed in detail.
IN Der Autor liefert eine Methodenkritik von 19 britischen BSE- und nvCJK-Risikoanalysen.
ZR 90
MH Animals; Cattle; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/epidemiology/etiology/transmission; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/epidemiology/etiology/*transmission; Food Chain; Food Contamination; Great Britain/epidemiology; Humans; Models, Biological; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Risk Assessment; Species Specificity
AD Department of Theoretical Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. e.grist@rhul.ac.uk
SP englisch
PO USA