| towards the international collaboration for detection, surveillance and control of taeniasis/ cysticercosis and echinococcosis in asia and the pacific. | both cysticercosis and echinococcosis are potentially among the most serious helminth zoonoses threatening human health worldwide. however, due to the lack of reliable tools for confirmation or identification of patients or infected animals, epidemiological data are expected to be underestimated. conversely, sometimes, such data are over estimated due to the lack of specificity. the most important issue for doing field surveys is that they use evidence based science. in this communication, advan ... | 2006 | 17547058 |
| elisa antibodies to cysticerci of taenia solium in human populations in new guinea, oceania, and southeast asia. | the presence of elisa antibodies to cysticerci of taenia solium was surveyed in populations of new guinea, micronesia, and several areas of southeast asia. it is confirmed that cysticercosis in new guinea remains limited to the primary wissel lakes focus in irian jaya, where the disease was introduced by the importation of infected pigs, and that it has not spread to populations east or south of the wissel lakes, or to papua new guinea. on the island of bali, indonesia, 21% of sera were positive ... | 1981 | 6211771 |