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Genetic variation in Taenia solium

Parasitology International, 2006
Neurocysticercosis is a major zoonotic larval cestode infection that has a worldwide distribution and is of significant public health importance. Knowledge of the genetic structure of Taenia solium can be applied to the epidemiology and transmission of this disease, since genetic variants may differ in infectivity and pathogenicity.
Akira Ito, Philip S. Craig, Gillian Campbell, Minoru Nakao, Hector H. Garcia   +4 more
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Taenia solium Cysticercosis — The lessons of history

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2015
Human taeniasis as well as porcine and human cysticercosis--caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium--are ancient diseases. The fact that pigs were considered impure in the ancient Greece and that the Koran prohibited the consumption of pork, were likely related to the knowledge that cysticercosis may affect swine.
Del Brutto, Oscar H., García Lescano, Héctor Hugo   +1 more
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Sero-prevalence of Taenia solium Cysticercosis and Taenia solium Taeniasis in California, USA

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2005
Taenia solium Cysticercosis is a leading cause of epilepsy and neurological disability in the developing world. It is caused by ingestion of the eggs of the tapeworm, T. solium Taeniasis. The prevalence of either T. solium Cysticercosis or T. solium Taeniasis in the United States in populations at risk is poorly understood.
M T Medina, F Sorvillo, Astudillo S, Christopher M. DeGiorgio, Victor C. W. Tsang, Leyva P, Corral-Leyva G, S. Pietsch-Escueta, R. del Villasenor, J Noh, L Martinez, L Ng, N Padilla, Min Z. Levine   +13 more
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Perspectives on the control of Taenia solium [PDF]

Parasitology Today, 1990
Six symposia on Taenia solium taeniasis/ cysticercosis were organized during the 3rd Latin American Congress of Tropical Medicine held in Mexico City on 21-24 May 1990. This reflects the leading role that Latin American parasitologists play in basic research and field studies aimed at the control of T. solium.
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Taenia solium (Linnaeus 1758) [PDF]

, 1995
Taenia solium is distributed throughout the world and coincides with the raising of pigs, especially in areas where human feces are used as fertilizer. In parts of Southeast Asia, Micronesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Central America (particularly Guatemala), South America (particularly Ecuador), and eastern Europe, the infection is endemic.
Peter J. Hotez, Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz   +2 more
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Unusual manifestations of Taenia solium infestation

Journal of Gastroenterology, 2004
We present two rare cases of unusual manifestations of Taenia solium infestation. Taenia infestation usually causes abdominal pain and diarrhea in humans. But there have been no clinical reports of ascites, chronic diarrhea, and malabsorption due to Taenia solium without evidence of the ova or larvae of the parasites in stool examinations.
Eun Kee Song, Seung Ok Lee, In Hee Kim
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Hatching In vitro of Oncospheres of Taenia solium

The Journal of Parasitology, 1984
Various authors have studied hatching of cestode oncospheres infecting animals and man (Heath and Smyth, 1970, Parasitology 61: 329343). Silverman (1954, Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 48: 207-215) reported up to 74% activation of oncospheres of Taenia saginata. Jones et al. (1960, J. Parasit. 46: 170-174) described the hatching of T.
de Haro I, Salazar Pm, Voge M
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Detection of Genetic Variation in Taenia solium

Journal of Parasitology, 2003
Genetic variability among Taenia solium isolates was studied in 160 cysticerci from 6 pigs, 4 from Mexico, 1 from Honduras, and 1 from Tanzania. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis performed with 4 commercial primers showed 88% polymorphic loci and an average heterozygosity of 0.077; however, several alleles were fixed within each isolate.
Aldo Valera, Valeria Souza, Mirza Romero-Valdovinos, Yolanda López-Vidal, Pablo Maravilla, Javier R. Ambrosio, Jose Luis Dominguez-Alpizar, Simon Kawa, Ana Flisser   +8 more
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Taenia solium: Immunity in hogs to the cysticercus

Experimental Parasitology, 1983
Protection was induced in hogs against Taenia solium cysticercosis using an immunogenic complex obtained from its larval "bladder worm" form, Cysticercus cellulosae. Immunoelectrophoresis revealed that this complex contained at least eight antigens. In immunized hogs a total of 71 (mean 11.8) cysticerci were found, whereas in the control animals 397 ...
A. Retana, Patricia Tato, J.L. Molinari, B. Suárez, S. Palacios, R. Meza   +5 more
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Differentiation of Taenia saginata and Taenia solium by enzyme electrophoresis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1977
Forty-four Taenia saginata and seven T. solium specimens were collected in Nigeria. Extracts of these worms and of their metacestodes were compared by enzyme electrophoresis. The mobility of glucose phosphate isomerase was consistently faster with T. saginata than with T. solium. Extracts of the strobilate and cysticercus forms of the same species gave
P.D. Le Riche, M.M.H. Sewell
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