Taenia solium infection causes severe neurological disease in humans. Even though infection and exposure to swine cysticercosis is scattered throughout endemic villages, location of the tapeworm only explains some of the nearby infections and is not related to location of seropositive pigs. Other players might be involved in cysticercosis transmission. In this study we hypothesize that pigs tha...

OBJECTIVES (1) To investigate the response to a serum antigen-detecting ELISA for cysticercosis and a stool coproantigen test for taeniasis in two rural communities (mountainous and coastal areas) and one group of (peri-)urban factory workers; and (2) to examine clinical features of human cysticercosis in northern Vietnam. METHODS Villagers and factory workers and their families were informed...

Aim: The study was conducted to identify major causes of organs condemnation in cattle slaughtered at Adigrat municipal abattoir and to estimate the direct economic losses. Material and Methods: A cross sectional active abattoir survey, which involves both ante mortem and post mortem examinations, was conducted on 745 cattle from October 2012 to April 2013, and two years (September 2010 Septemb...

through the lower lid as a distinct swelling which becomes decidedly more prominent when the patient looks upwards. On everting the right lower lid, there is an ovoid cyst-like swelling occupying the middle third of the lower part of the ocular conjunctiva. The growth nearly approaches the fornix. It is somewhat adherent to the over-lying conjunctiva, and moves fairly freely over the sclerotic....