There is an increasing interest in reducing the incidence of human neurocysticercosis, caused by infection with the larval stage of Taenia solium. Several intervention trials are currently assessing various options for control of T. solium transmission. A critical aspect of these trials will be the evaluation of whether the interventions have been successful. However, there is no consensus abou...

Taeniids are frequent in dogs of Mediterranean countries and most studies have focused on the zoonotic Echinococcus granulosus, although several other species of cestodes are usually collected. We necropsied 127 stray dogs in two areas of eastern Algeria, in order to characterize the cestode communities and the factors that may structure these communities in conditions where anthelmintic treatm...

Effects of D 600, papaverine and KCN on sustained contracture induced by 20 mM KCl in a Na+-free sucrose- or Tris-substituted solution were investigated in the taenia coli of guinea pigs. D 600 (10(-5) M) and papaverine (10(-4) M), added after 40 min incubation in the 20 mM KCl sucrose solution, relaxed the muscle by 88.2 +/- 8.0% (mean +/- S.E., n = 4) and 78.8 +/- 6.3% (n = 4), respectively. ...

Inactivation of currents carried through calcium channels by calcium (ICa), barium (IBa) and monovalent cations (In.s.) was studied in single smooth muscle cell (SMC) of the guinea-pig coronary artery and taenia caeci by the whole-cell patch-clamp method. The rate of ICa inactivation in the coronary artery SMC was correlated with ICa amplitude, and acceleration was observed with the increasing ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether epilepsy is caused by Taenia solium cysticercosis in The Gambia. METHODS Case-control study testing samples collected from 210 people with epilepsy and 420 matched controls by sex and age +/-5 years from 69 different places around the country during the period October 2008-March 2009. All serum samples were subjected to an antigen detection ELISA (Ag-ELISA) and ...

A 29-year-old, Ethiopian-born, female student in her fourth year at a local college traveled from Houston to Mexico City during a Christmas vacation. While in Mexico City, she recalled eating uncooked beef. Several weeks after returning to Houston, she noticed white, moving objects in her stool. The objects were flat and variable in length, up to several centimeters. She was concerned that the ...

Neurocysticercosis (NC), i.e., the presence of the larval form of Taenia solium in tissues, is the most frequent and severe infection involving the central nervous system. Paired serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with NC, CSF and serum samples from a control group, and serum samples from patients with other parasitoses were studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (E...

Previous paleoparasitological studies of Joseon specimens established that the prevalence of Taenia infection was not much different from that of the early 20th century Korean population. As many of taeniases originally diagnosed as Taenia saginata in South Korea were revealed to be actually Taenia asiatica, which share a common intermediate host with T. solium (the pig), Joseon people must hav...