| taenia solium cysticercosis in bali, indonesia: serology and mtdna analysis. | an active taenia solium cysticercosis case in bali, indonesia, was followed-up by serology and computed tomography. serology using semi-purified glycoprotein and recombinant antigens showed a drastic drop in titers after calcification of the cysts. three paraffin-embedded cysts, prepared for histopathological examination, from three other patients were used for mtdna analysis. the sequences of cox1 gene from t. solium cysticerci from bali differed from those in papua and other asian countries. | 2008 | 17920648 |
| cysticercosis in indonesia: epidemiological aspects. | cysticercosis caused by the larval stage, cysticercus or cysticerci, of the pork tapeworm taenia solium was recognized at first in bali and in paniai district, irian jaya (papua), indonesia in the 1970s. in the 1990s a rapid increase in the number of the cases of epileptic seizures and burns in jayawijaya district, eastern papua, was observed. there were a total of 1,120 new cases of burns (7.0%) and 293 new cases of epileptic seizures (1.8%) from 15,939 local people during 1991-1995. both histo ... | 2001 | 12041608 |
| improved diagnosis as an aid to better surveillance of taenia solium cysticercosis, a potential public health threat to papua new guinea. | taenia solium cysticercosis has been recognized as a public health problem in indonesian irian jaya since its unfortunate introduction in a number of infected pigs imported from bali. from its original point of introduction in 1971, the infection has spread from the wissel lakes area to other places within irian jaya. the present situation at the border between irian jaya and papua new guinea (png) is difficult to assess accurately but, in light of the flow of refugees and the traditional rights ... | 1995 | 9522870 |