81urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:EE60897E-EDEE-5EC8-86EB-7203BECD195DARPHA Conference AbstractsACA2603-3925Pensoft Publishers10.3897/aca.4.e689456894516966Conference AbstractOne Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting Satellite Workshop 2021 Software FairFood products identified as source of a foodborne disease outbreak by a fast and robust likelihood estimationFusiakJakubjakub.fusiak@bfr.bund.de1KausrudKyrrehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2738-73512GottschaldMarion1TölleDominic1RügenMarco1LewickiBirgit1GerberIsaak1KayserMichele1FalenskiAlexander1WeiserArmin1JoreSolveig3NorströmMadelaine2AltKatja1German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, GermanyGerman Federal Institute for Risk AssessmentBerlinGermanyNorwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, NorwayNorwegian Veterinary InstituteOsloNorwayNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, NorwayNorwegian Institute of Public HealthOsloNorway
Corresponding author: Jakub Fusiak (jakub.fusiak@bfr.bund.de).
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2021280520214e689455B3AB607-9412-5765-B675-861C3ECADA4620052021Jakub Fusiak, Kyrre Kausrud, Marion Gottschald, Dominic Tölle, Marco Rügen, Birgit Lewicki, Isaak Gerber, Michele Kayser, Alexander Falenski, Armin Weiser, Solveig Jore, Madelaine Norström, Katja AltThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Identifying a specific product causing a foodborne disease outbreak can be difficult, especially when dealing with a large amounts of suspicious food items and weak epidemiological evidence. A previously described likelihood model (Norström et al. 2015), improved within the OHEJP NOVA project, helps to prioritize food products that should be sampled for laboratory analysis. It is the aim of our study to integrate this approach into state of the art tracing software FoodChain-Lab (FCL; https://foodrisklabs.bfr.bund.de/foodchain-lab) developed at BfR to facilitate outbreak investigations.
The model improved by Kausrud et al. in R (Ihaka and Gentleman 1996) uses wholesale data, the distribution of disease cases and census data to sort food items by their estimated likelihood to be the source of an outbreak. We developed a fast and secure intuitive software module using the Web Assembly technology (Haas et al. 2017) allowing professionals to embed the module easily into other applications.
We integrated the module into the FCL web application for tracing (FCL Web; https://fcl-portal.bfr.berlin) to provide an intuitive and user-friendly solution. This solution combines a simple data input with extended data wrangling to make the calculation of the NOVA model as easy as possible. Since the model can be executed directly inside the web browser and therefore does not rely on any server environment, the possibility of data leakage can be highly reduced. The implementation of the advanced likelihood model into FCL Web increase the availability of this model and provides investigators easy, fast and reliable usage to improve outbreak investigation workflows.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 773830.
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