An epidemiological study of Taenia solium cysticercosis in a rural population in the Bolivian Chaco

Acta Tropica

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-235

  Carrique Mas, J ^a,e   Iihoshi, N ^b   Widdowson, M A ^c   Roca, Y ^b   Morales, G ^d   Quiroga, J ^d   Cejas, F ^b   Caihuara, M ^d   Ibarra, R ^d   Edelsten, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales   (Bolivia)

^c Unidad Nacional De Vigilancia Epidemiológica Y Control De Enfermedades Animales   (Bolivia)

^d LIDIVET   (Bolivia)

^e EPIET   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiological study; Human cysticercosis; Porcine cysticercosis; Taenia solium; Taeniasis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

HEALTH RISK; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PEST OUTBREAK; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BOLIVIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS CELLULOSAE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

BOLIVIA;

CHACO; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0035930391     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00161-9     Document Type: Article

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