Familial clustering of Taenia solium cysticercosis in the rural pigs of Mexico: Hints of genetic determinants in innate and acquired resistance to infection

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-229

  Sciutto, E ^a   Martinez J J ^a   Huerta, M ^b   Avila, R ^b   Fragoso, G ^a   Villalobos, N ^a   De Aluja, A ^a   Larralde, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE CIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Genetic background; Susceptibility; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT VACCINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC RISK; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MEXICO; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TAENIA SOLIUM; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

SUS SCROFA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 1542614137     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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