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Wed 04 Apr 2003Method to detect food parasite found
A European research team, led by a Teagasc scientist, Dr Geraldine Duffy, has achieved a world first in the development of a new method to detect a parasite, cryptosporidium parvum, in food.
Cryptosporidium parvum is an emerging food parasite, and infected humans can suffer acute diarrhoea with abdominal pain, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and low-grade fever.
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