TAENIA SAGINATA is a parasite of hu-mans, where its adult form is a large tapeworm in the small intestine, and of cattle, where its larval form is a small cysticercus in the muscles. Man can only acquire the infestation by eating raw beef. Cattle can only acquire the cysticercus by consuming ova from human excreta. Humans, as a rule, are concerned only with their own infestation. They seldom co...

Veterinary parasitology has traditionally been concerned with the control of parasites of livestock and companion animals, with emphasis on chemotherapy and immunoprophylaxis. 1 One phase the parasite and hostrelationship among the cestodes that concern humans and domestic animals, is that the parasites cause varying degrees of pathogenic alternations. They are, therefore of great interest to t...

Bovine cysticercosis is an infection of cattle caused by Cysticercus bovis, the larval stage of Taenia saginata. It is an infection of public health significance as eating of raw or undercooked beef results taeniasis in human population and an important cause of economic loss mainly due to condemnation, refrigeration and downgrading of infected carcasses. Bovine cysticercosis is prevalent in ca...

Abstract Taeniasis and cysticercosis pose a significant challenge to food safety public health. Cysticercosis reduces the market value for pigs cattle by making pork beef unsafe consumption. In this paper, mathematical model transmission dynamics of taeniasis in humans, is formulated analyzed. The analysis shows that both disease free equilibrium (DFE) endemic (EE) exist. To study diseases, we ...

Taenia solium-taeniasis and cysticercosis were studied in the human and porcine populations of a rural community in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. From the 1059 inhabitants, 800 serum samples and 958 stool samples could be collected. In addition, 646 from the estimated 1148 pigs were tongue inspected. Circulating antigen was detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (Ag-ELISA) in 2.25% of t...

We studied the occurrence of human cysticercosis in 4993 individuals from three rural communities of Menoua Division, West Province of Cameroon. Circulating antigens of Taenia solium metacestodes were detected in 0.4%, 1.0% and 3.0% of the serum samples taken in Bafou, Bamendou and Fonakekeu, respectively, and examined using a monoclonal antibody-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. This te...