| prevalence and comparison of serologic assays, necropsy, and tongue examination for the diagnosis of porcine cysticercosis in peru. | swine cysticercosis, a severe zoonotic disease which is part of the taenia solium life cycle, causes major economic losses in pig husbandry. throughout south america, farmers diagnose cysticercosis by examining the tongues of their pigs for cysticercus nodules. farmers do not bring pigs believed to be infected to the slaughterhouse for fear of confiscation. therefore, reliable statistics on porcine cysticercosis can only be acquired at the household level. we examined the utility of the tongue t ... | 1990 | 2389823 |