Publications by authors named "Rita Korotinska"
: Protozoan parasites- and -are important causes of diarrhea with an underestimated short-term burden on childhood growth and wellbeing in children under five years of age. The main transmission routes for both parasites are food and drinking water; transmission from person to person; and, due to their zoonotic nature, from domestic or wild animals to humans. The aims of the present study were to summarize the officially reported human cases of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in Latvia and to assess the occurrence of and in children within a prospective prevalence study.
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- Sequence-based typing of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is crucial for detecting and investigating outbreaks, as demonstrated during a significant EU-wide outbreak linked to frozen berries in 2013, though challenges arose due to partial genomic comparability among countries.
- In 2014, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) surveyed EU/EEA countries to assess their HAV surveillance practices and proposed harmonized procedures to enhance cross-border outbreak response, focusing on sequencing methods.
- Follow-up surveys in 2016 showed an increase in countries participating in centralized collection and sequencing of HAV samples, but disparities in the specific genomic regions sequenced still exist, indicating that further collaboration is needed for effective surveillance.