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Journal Article
Elimination of Taenia solium Transmission in Northern Peru
2016
Overview
Zoonotic infections can be controlled by interceding in the animal host. This report describes elimination of
T. solium
infection from a region in Peru through intervention in the pig–human cycle; such intervention should diminish complications from cysticercosis in the future.
Infection of the human brain by cystic larvae of the pork tapeworm species
Taenia solium
is the most frequent cause of late-onset seizures and epilepsy in the world.
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Transmission is sustained in rural areas through a pig–human cycle in which humans harbor the adult intestinal tapeworm (taeniasis) and pigs carry the cystic larvae in their flesh (cysticercosis). In poor, rural villages, domestic pig husbandry and lack of sanitation allow pigs to become infected by consuming human feces containing tapeworm eggs. In turn, humans acquire taeniasis by consuming pork contaminated with larval cysts or acquire neurocysticercosis through incidental ingestion of . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Adult
/ Animals
/ Anthelmintics - therapeutic use
/ Cysticercosis - prevention & control
/ Cysticercosis - transmission
/ Cysts
/ Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
/ Endemic Diseases - prevention & control
/ Epilepsy
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Necropsy
/ Peru
/ Seizures
/ Taenia solium - isolation & purification
/ Taeniasis - prevention & control
/ Vaccines
