| Literature DB >> 17166477 |
Tiaoying Li1, Philip S Craig, Akira Ito, Xingwang Chen, Dongchuan Qiu, Jiamin Qiu, Marcello O Sato, Toni Wandra, Helen Bradshaw, Li Li, Yun Yang, Qian Wang.
Abstract
The results of a preliminary survey of taeniasis/cysticercosis in Yajiang County, Ganze Tibetan Prefecture in southwest Sichuan Province, China, indicated a very high prevalence of taeniasis (22.5%), with Taenia saginata as the dominant species. There was also a significant occurrence of late-onset epilepsy (8.5% prevalence and 16.4% seropositive for Taenia solium antibodies) attributable in large part to probable neurocysticercosis caused by T. solium. The poor sanitation and hygiene in this Tibetan community likely contributed to a high risk of human cysticercosis despite a low level of T. solium taeniasis (actually no T. solium carriers were detected amongst the 21 proven Taenia carriers). In addition, three taeniasis cases were confirmed by DNA genotyping as Taenia asiatica, which is the first report of this tapeworm in Tibetans, the first report for Sichuan Province and only the third report for mainland China.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17166477 DOI： 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.11.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Trop ISSN： 0001-706X Impact factor: 3.112