Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis in Asia: Epidemiology, impact and issues

Acta Tropica

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-60

  Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a   Joshi, Durga Dutt ^b   Doanh, Nguyen Quoc ^c   Van De, Nguyen ^d   Xiaonong, Zhou ^e  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b National Zoonoses and Food Hygiene Research Centre   (Nepal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY RESEARCH   (Viet Nam)

^d Inst Malariology   (Viet Nam)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; Parasite; Pigs; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASE; PIG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MANPOWER PLANNING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PIG FARMING; RURAL HYGIENE; SEROPREVALENCE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ASIA;

SUS SCROFA; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0037986257     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00055-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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