| familial clustering of taenia solium cysticercosis in the rural pigs of mexico: hints of genetic determinants in innate and acquired resistance to infection. | in two rural villages of the state of puebla, mexico, where taenia solium pig cysticercosis is highly endemic, 120 pairs of young out-bred piglets were used to assay what proved to be an effective synthetic peptide vaccine against naturally acquired cysticercosis. because the piglets used were all sired by one of three distinct studs in many different out-bred sows, the prevalence and intensity of infection, as well as degree of protection conferred by the vaccine, could be related to each of th ... | 2003 | 14559165 |