Spatial distribution of Taenia solium exposure in humans and pigs in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Taenia solium, a pork-borne parasitic zoonosis, is the cause of taeniasis and cysticercosis in humans. In Vietnam, poor sanitation, the practice of outdoor defecation and consumption of raw/undercooked pork have been associated with infection/exposure to T. solium in both humans and pigs. The broad-scale geographic distribution of the prevalence of T. solium varies throughout the country with infection restricted to isolated foci in the north and a more sporadic geographic distribution in the Central Highlands and the south. While cross-sectional studies have allowed the broad-scale geographic distribution of T. solium to be described, details of the geographic distribution of T. solium at finer spatial scales have not been described in detail. This study provides a desc

SUBMITTER: Ng-Nguyen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6168177 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature