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Human taeniasis and cysticercosis in Asia

2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 362; Issue: 9399 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(03)14965-3

1474-547X

Akira Ito, Minoru Nakao, Toni Wandra,

Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery

Context Human taeniasis caused by the pork, Taenia solium, or beef, T saginata, tapeworm arises after eating pork or beef contaminated with metacestodes, the larval stage of these parasites. Taeniasis with T solium can lead to neuro-cysticercosis and threaten others by accidental ingestion of eggs released from asymptomatic taeniasis patients. The 2003 World Health Assembly declared that T solium is of worldwide public-health importance, and that it is an eradicable parasitic disease worldwide. Adult taeniid tapeworms expelled from people in almost all Asian countries appeared to be T saginata (the so-called Asian Taenia), even though they ate pork. The organism is now named T asiatica, and has been found in Taiwan, Korea, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. But it has been difficult to differentiate T saginata from beef and Asian Taenia from pork.