Investigating a hyper-endemic focus of Taenia solium in northern Lao PDR by Anna Okello, Amanda Ash, Chattouphone Keokhamphet, Emma Hobbs, Boualam Khamlome, Pierre Dorny, Lian Thomas, John Allen

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Seroprevalencia y factores de riesgo de cisticercosis en trabajadores de granjas porcinas y criadores de cerdos artesanales del municipio Mara, estado Zulia, Venezuela by Villalobos-Perozo Rafael, Cheng Rosita, Díaz Odelis, Estévez Jesús, Beauchamp Sharline, Cava José, Nacarid Alfonso, Soto Gustavo, Castellano Carlina, Pérez Lesbia

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A Young Man in a Rural Breast Clinic by Linda Ratanaprasatporn, Aline Umwizerwa, Vedaste Hategekimana, Vestine Rugema, Sughra Raza

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Evaluación de las pruebas dot blot y aglutinación de látex para el diagnóstico de cisticercosis en Perú by Eduardo Miranda-Ulloa, Roxana Sandoval-Ahumada, Eduardo Ayala, Juan Vásquez-Ampuero

Subjects: “…Cysticercosis…”
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Estudo soroepidemiológico da cisticercose humana em um município do Estado do Piauí, Região Nordeste do Brasil Seroepidemiological survey of human cysticercosis in a municipality of Piaui State, Northeast Brazil by Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr., Heloísa Werneck de Macedo, Marcelo Campos Rodrigues, Regina Helena Saramago Peralta, Nicodemos Alves de Macedo, Margareth da Cunha Marques, Jair Rodrigues Alves, Arly de Negreiros Paes, José Adail Fonseca de Castro, Adauto José Gonçalves Araújo, José Mauro Peralta

“…Some 13.6% of the individuals were seroreactive for cysticercosis by the ELISA method. The second stage, in 2001, evaluated 92 serum samples of individuals who had been detected as reactive for cysticercosis in the first stage, along with their family members; 24% of the samples were reactive to cysticercosis by ELISA and 29% by Western blot. …”
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Cysticercus pisiformis-derived novel-miR1 targets TLR2 to inhibit the immune response in rabbits by Guoliang Chen, Guiting Pu, Liqun Wang, Yanping Li, Tingli Liu, Hong Li, Shaohua Zhang, Xuelin Wang, Xiaolei Liu, Xuenong Luo, Xuenong Luo

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Trial Design for a Diagnostic Accuracy Study of a Point-of-Care Test for the Detection of <em>Taenia solium</em> Taeniosis and (Neuro)Cysticercosis in Community Settings of Highly Endemic, Resource-Poor Areas in Zambia: Challenges and Rationale by Inge Van Damme, Chiara Trevisan, Kabemba E. Mwape, Veronika Schmidt, Pascal Magnussen, Gideon Zulu, Chishimba Mubanga, Dominik Stelzle, Emmanuel Bottieau, Emmanuel Abatih, Isaac K. Phiri, Maria V. Johansen, Chishala Chabala, Andrea S. Winkler, Pierre Dorny, Sarah Gabriël, on behalf of the SOLID Consortium

“…Participants who tested TS POC positive for taeniosis and/or cysticercosis and a subset of the negatives were requested to give blood and stool samples for reference testing, and to undergo clinical examination and a cerebral CT scan. …”
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A Large Case Series of Neurocysticercosis in Kuwait, a Nonendemic Arabian Gulf Country in the Middle East Region by Jamshaid Iqbal, Suhail Ahmad, Mohammad Al-Awadhi, Amir Masud, Zainab Mohsin, Abdullah Y. Abdulrasoul, Khalifa Albenwan, Nadia Alenezi, Fatima AlFarsi

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Spatial transferability of an agent-based model to simulate Taenia solium control interventions by Francesco Pizzitutti, Gabrielle Bonnet, Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson, Sarah Gabriël, William K. Pan, Armando E. Gonzalez, Hector H. Garcia, Seth E. O’Neal, for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

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Trial Design of a Prospective Multicenter Diagnostic Accuracy Study of a Point-of-Care Test for the Detection of <em>Taenia solium</em> Taeniosis and Neurocysticercosis in Hospital... by Chiara Trevisan, Inge Van Damme, Bernard Ngowi, Veronika Schmidt, Dominik Stelzle, Karen Schou Møller, Mwemezi Kabululu, Charles E. Makasi, Pascal Magnussen, Emmanuel Bottieau, Emmanuel Abatih, Maria V. Johansen, Helena Ngowi, Benedict Ndawi, Kabemba E. Mwape, Gideon Zulu, Pierre Dorny, Andrea S. Winkler, Sarah Gabriël, on behalf of the SOLID Consortium

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Stability and bifurcation analysis of a Taenia saginata model with control measures by Joshua A. Mwasunda, Jacob I. Irunde

Subjects: “…Bovine cysticercosis…”
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Hygiene and restraint of pigs is associated with absence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in a rural community of Mexico La higiene y el confinamiento de cerdos están asociados con la ausencia de cisticercosis por Taenia solium en una comunidad rural de México by Sonia Vázquez-Flores, Gilberto Ballesteros-Rodea, Ana Flisser, Peter M. Schantz

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GIS-BASED RISK MONITORING OF ZOONOTIC CESTODIASIS IN HUMAN by V. V. Belimenko, N. A. Samoylovskaya, E. V. Novosad, P. I. Christianovsky

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Freqüência de indivíduos com anticorpos sericos anti-Cysticercus cellulosae em cinco Municípios do Estado de São Paulo by Adelaide José Vaz, Antonio Shigueo Guskuma Hanashiro, Pedro Paulo Chieffi, Antonio Walter Ferreira

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Epizootology (epidemiology) of helminthozoonoses in the south-west of Republic of Kazakstan by S. A. Kenzhebaev, D. . Ibragimov, G. O. Zhumalieva

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Identification and culture of proliferative cells in abnormal Taenia solium larvae: Role in the development of racemose neurocysticercosis. by Miguel A Orrego, Manuela R Verastegui, Carlos M Vasquez, Uriel Koziol, Juan P Laclette, Hector H Garcia, Theodore E Nash, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

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Non-local validated parametrization of an agent-based model of local-scale Taenia solium transmission in North-West Peru. by Francesco Pizzitutti, Gabrielle Bonnet, Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson, Sarah Gabriël, William K Pan, Ian W Pray, Armando E Gonzalez, Hector H Garcia, Seth E O'Neal, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

“…The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is the cause of a preventable zoonotic disease, cysticercosis, affecting both pigs and humans. Continued endemic transmission of T. solium is a major contributor of epilepsy and other neurologic morbidity, and the source of important economic losses, in many rural areas of developing countries. …”
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CystiHuman: A model of human neurocysticercosis. by Gabrielle Bonnet, Francesco Pizzitutti, Eloy A Gonzales-Gustavson, Sarah Gabriël, William K Pan, Hector H Garcia, Javier A Bustos, Percy Vilchez, Seth E O'Neal, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The Taenia solium tapeworm is responsible for cysticercosis, a neglected tropical disease presenting as larvae in the body of a host following taenia egg ingestion. …”
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Perilesional Inflammation in Neurocysticercosis - Relationship Between Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Evans Blue Staining and Histopathology in the Pig Model. by Carla Cangalaya, Javier A Bustos, Juan Calcina, Ana Vargas-Calla, Diego Suarez, Armando E Gonzalez, Juan Chacaltana, Cristina Guerra-Giraldez, Siddhartha Mahanty, Theodore E Nash, Hector H García, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

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Concordance between two monoclonal antibody-based antigen detection enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for measuring cysticercal antigen levels in sera from pigs experimentally inf... by Gianfranco Arroyo, Luz Toribio, Sara Garrido, Nancy Chile, Teresa Lopez-Urbina, Luis A. Gomez-Puerta, Miguel Muro, Robert H. Gilman, Yesenia Castillo, Pierre Dorny, Seth E. O’Neal, Armando E. Gonzalez, Hector H. Garcia, for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (CWGP)

“…Abstract Background Antigen detection in Taenia solium cysticercosis confirms viable infection in the intermediate host (either pig or human). …”
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