| challenges for control of taeniasis/cysticercosis in indonesia. | taeniasis/cysticercosis has been reported from several provinces of indonesia: papua (=former irian jaya), bali, north sumatra, east nusa tenggara, south east sulawesi, lampung, north sulawesi, jakarta, west kalimantan, and east java. the highest level of endemicity of taeniasis/cysticercosis has been found in papua. recent surveys in jayawijaya district of papua in 2000 and 2001 showed that 5 of 58 local people (8.6%) harbored the adult tapeworm, taenia solium, whereas 44 of 96 people (45.8%), ... | 2006 | 16380290 |
| taeniasis/cysticercosis in papua (irian jaya), indonesia. | reports showed that an important parasitic zoonotic disease caused by taenia solium, taenia saginata and taenia asiatica is found endemic in several areas of indonesia including papua, bali and north sumatra. at present it is known that the highest prevalence of taeniasis/cysticercosis in indonesia, caused by t. solium is among the indigenous communities in papua (formerly irian jaya). in the early 1970s, 8-9% of stool samples from the enarotali hospital, paniai district (irian jaya) were found ... | 2006 | 16376603 |
| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonian syndromes in high incidence among the auyu and jakai people of west new guinea. | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) and parkinsonism-dementia (pd) occur in the highest recorded incidence among primitive auyu and jakai people on the southern coastal plain of west new guinea, in association with a heretofore unrecognized subacute, often recurrent, paralytic "poliomyeloradiculitis" (pmr). ninety-seven cases of als, 19 cases of pd and 18 cases of pmr were recorded, with mean ages of onset of 33, 43, and 26, respectively, in a small affected population of only about 7000. the ec ... | 1982 | 7198738 |