BACKGROUND "Neglected Tropical Diseases" (NTDs) affect millions of people in Africa, Asia and South America. The two primary ways of strategic interventions are "preventive chemotherapy and transmission control" (PCT), and "innovative and intensified disease management" (IDM). In the last 5 years, phenomenal progress has been achieved. However, it is crucial to intensify research effort into NT...

Parasites are all around us, infecting types of living things and existing as both commensals pathogens.1–3 Many parasitic infections found in tropical subtropical settings disproportionately affect individuals without access to adequate sanitary facilities fresh water.3 Important examples these include malaria, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, soil-transmitted helminths, food-borne trematodiase...

The World Health Organization recently launched its 2021-2030 roadmap, Ending the Neglect to Attain Sustainable Development Goals, an updated call arms end suffering caused by neglected trop...

It is now well known that infestation of the muscles, eyes and brain with the cysticerci of a cestode occurs in India. MacArthur (1934) and other officers of the R.A.M.C. have drawn attention to cysticercosis as a cause of epilepsy in soldiers who have served in India. The mode of infection is doubtful, as only a small proportion of such epileptics admit infection with a tapeworm. Diagnosis of ...

Taenia solium is a zoonosis found all over the world, especially in developing countries. T can cause taeniasis and cysticercosis humans. Pigs as intermediate hosts be infected with which causes porcine cysticercosis. infect muscle, skin, eye, brain tissue develop into neurocysticercosis. Neurocysticercosis of 30% cases epilepsy world. In Denpasar city, pigs are one type livestock. A large numb...

The presence of two oncosphere antigens (OAs) of 22.5 and 31.3 kD in whole and excretory/secretory (ES) OA preparations of both Taenia solium and T. saginata or in antigen preparations from T. solium metacestodes or immature tapeworms was assessed. This included an evaluation of whether antibodies to other cestodes cross-reacted to these OAs. The OAs were present in whole oncosphere extract and...