A Review of Sudan’s Major Food-Borne Viral and Fungal Diseases

Year 2024, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 553 - 560, 28.06.2024

Siddiqa Hamza , Azza Mutwakil , Abdalbasıt Marıod , Rihab Mohammed

https://doi.org/10.33808/clinexphealthsci.1126734

Abstract

Objective: This review article was conducted to highlight both viral and fungal foodborne situations in Sudan and their health impacts aiming to help health policymakers in introducing strict intervention measures.
Method: The review uses up-to-date data via manual screening of the titles and abstracts of retrieved articles using string foodborne diseases in Sudan and foodborne illnesses as keywords to obtain publications from the electronic databases PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar from the year 2000-2020 using the publish or perish tool, the databases were reviewed from January to April 2022.
Results: Foodborne viruses and Mycotoxins produced by certain fungi; are considered among the top priorities and have become of great concern to the food industry over the last few years because their contamination can occur at any point in the nutritional supply chain besides their serious effects on human health both long and short term.
Conclusion: The review on major food borne viral and fungal diseases in Sudan is an important issue to guard against contamination with such micro-organisms and prevent their illnesses.

Keywords

Enteric viruses, Norovirus, Aflatoxins, Mold, Aspergillus flavus

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