Castration and pregnancy of rural pigs significantly increase the prevalence of naturally acquired Taenia solium cysticercosis

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-48

  Morales, J ^c   Velasco, T ^d   Tovar, V ^b   Fragoso, G ^a   Fleury, A ^b   Beltran C ^a   Villalobos, N ^a   Aluja, A ^a   Rodarte, L F ^a   Sciutto, E ^a   Larralde, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Castration; Pregnancy; Sex; Taenia solium cysticercosis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANCY; SWINE DISEASE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TONGUE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; HYGIENE; MALE; MEXICO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TAENIA SOLIUM; TONGUE;

SUS SCROFA; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0037199728     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00168-1     Document Type: Article

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