Neurocysticercosis in free roaming pigs - A slaughterhouse survey

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 391-394

  Prakash, Anand ^a   Kumar, G Sai ^a   Rout, Manoranjan ^a   Nagarajan, K ^a   Kumar, Ram ^a  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Neurocysticercosis; Pigs; Taenia solium; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INDIA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEIZURE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEIZURES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

SUIDAE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 34548307163     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-007-9040-2     Document Type: Article

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