Old focus of cysticercosis in a senegalese village revisited after half a century

Acta Tropica

Volumn 119, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 199-202

  Secka, Arss ^a   Grimm, Felix ^b   Marcotty, Tanguy ^c,d   Geysen, Dirk ^c   Niang, Alassane M ^f   Ngale, Victoire ^g   Boutche, Laurent ^g   Van Marck, Eric ^e   Geerts, Stanny ^c  

^a International Trypanotolerance Centre Gambia   (Gambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f Bignona Hospital   (Senegal)

^g Ziguinchor Regional Hospital   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Ag ELISA; CT scan; EITB; Neurocysticercosis; Senegal; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CARBAMAZEPINE; DRINKING WATER; NICLOSAMIDE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; TAENIADEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHILD; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOKED FOOD; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOELECTROTRANSFER BLOT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND WASHING; HOUSEHOLD TOILET; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORK; SANITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SENEGAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TAENIA SAGINATA; VILLAGE TOILET; WATER SUPPLY; WORM EGG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BRAIN; CHILD; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

SENEGAL;

TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 79960584973     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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