“…In Poland, Sweden, Costa Rica, and Egypt, various vegetables and fruits such as lettuce, celery, cilantro, mung beans, strawberries, and raspberries purchased from local markets were identified containing human-pathogenic microsporidia species (Decraene et al, 2012;Jedrzejewski et al, 2007;Calvo et al, 2004;Mossallam, 2010). In 2009, an outbreak of microsporidiosis was found associated with contaminated food served at conference in a hotel in Sweden (Decraene et al, 2012).…”