<i>Taenia solium</i>
            taeniasis and cysticercosis in Central America.

Garcia-Noval, J.; Sánchez, Ana; Allan, James

doi:10.1079/9780851996288.0091

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“…Some studies suggest that the disease is more common among women and individuals between 30 and 40 years of age [ 7 , 8 ]. Epidemiological studies in Central and Latin America show that in the last thirty years, Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala are the countries with the highest annual frequency of taeniasis, whereas Costa Rica has the lowest number of cases [ 9 ]. On the other hand, in four communities in Guatemala (Quesada, El Tule, El Jocote, and Santa Gertrudis) in the period from 1991 to 1994, 92 positive cases were detected among 3,399 studied samples (2.7%), and 98% of the recovered parasites were T. solium .…”

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The Hamster Model for Identification of Specific Antigens of Taenia solium Tapeworms

Ochoa‐Sánchez

Jiménez

Landa

2011

BioMed Research International

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Humans acquire taeniasis by ingesting pork meat infected with Taenia solium cysticerci, which are the only definitive hosts of the adult stage (tapeworm) and responsible for transmitting the human and porcine cysticercosis. Hence, detection of human tapeworm carriers is a key element in the development of viable strategies to control the disease. This paper presents the identification of specific antigens using sera from hamsters infected with T. solium tapeworms analyzed by western blot assay with crude extracts (CEs) and excretion-secretion antigens (E/S Ag) obtained from T. solium cysticerci and tapeworms and extracts from other helminthes as controls. The hamster sera infected with T. solium tapeworms recognized specific bands of 72, 48, 36, and 24 kDa, in percentages of 81, 81, 90, and 88%, respectively, using the T. solium tapeworms E/S Ag. The antigens recognized by these hamster sera could be candidates to improve diagnosis of human T. solium taeniasis.

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