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Prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in the Lake Kyoga Basin, Uganda

BACKGROUND: Taenia solium is a zoonotic helminth with the potential to cause life threatening epilepsy in people through the aberrant larval infection of the brain called Neurocysticercosis (NCC). The pig is the intermediate host for T. solium where the larval form, cysticercus cellulosae, normally...

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Autores principales: Nsadha, Zachary, Thomas, Lian F, Fèvre, Eric M, Nasinyama, George, Ojok, Lonzy, Waiswa, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25286901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-014-0239-y