High prevalence of Taenia solium cysticerosis in a village community of Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1015-1018

  Kanobana, Kirezi ^a   Praet, Nicolas ^a   Kabwe, Constantin ^b   Dorny, Pierre ^a   Lukanu, Philippe ^c   Madinga, Joule ^d   Mitashi, Patrick ^d   Verwijs, Mirjam ^a   Lutumba, Pascal ^b   Polman, Katja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Institute Nationale de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^c Département Parasitologie ^*  (Congo)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

Author keywords

Circulating antigen; Democratic Republic of Congo; Epilepsy; Human cysticercosis; Sub Saharan Africa; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CASTOR OIL; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANTIGEN; BRAIN; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEUROLOGY; VILLAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARVAL STAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEIZURE; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TAENIA SOLIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

BAS CONGO; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 79961171905     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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