TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies for the elimination of taeniasis/cysticercosis
AU - García, Héctor H.
AU - González, Armando E.
AU - Del Brutto, Oscar H.
AU - Tsang, Victor C.W.
AU - Llanos-Zavalaga, Fernando
AU - Gonzalvez, Guillermo
AU - Romero, Jaime
AU - Gilman, Robert H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research grants from the Wellcome Trust; The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, NIH, USA, support other research by the authors. The sponsors had no role in the design or performance of this paper.
PY - 2007/11/15
Y1 - 2007/11/15
N2 - Advances in the field of neurocysticercosis continue to shape our understanding of the disease and our efforts to control it. Several attempts have been made to eradicate the disease with active interventions such as changing domestic pig-raising practices, mass chemotherapy of porcine cysticercosis and taeniasis, selective detection and treatment of taeniasis, and community health education. Moreover, ongoing progress in the diagnosis of taeniasis and the development of a porcine vaccine against cysticercosis in Australia, Mexico and Peru has yielded at least one effective vaccine that is currently available. Thus far, however, attempted interventions have only been successful in temporarily disrupting transmission of the disease. Controlled data on the efficacy and acceptability of the different interventions is urgently needed to provide a base-line schematic for intervention which could later be tailored to each particular endemic scenario.
AB - Advances in the field of neurocysticercosis continue to shape our understanding of the disease and our efforts to control it. Several attempts have been made to eradicate the disease with active interventions such as changing domestic pig-raising practices, mass chemotherapy of porcine cysticercosis and taeniasis, selective detection and treatment of taeniasis, and community health education. Moreover, ongoing progress in the diagnosis of taeniasis and the development of a porcine vaccine against cysticercosis in Australia, Mexico and Peru has yielded at least one effective vaccine that is currently available. Thus far, however, attempted interventions have only been successful in temporarily disrupting transmission of the disease. Controlled data on the efficacy and acceptability of the different interventions is urgently needed to provide a base-line schematic for intervention which could later be tailored to each particular endemic scenario.
KW - Computed tomography
KW - Cysticercosis
KW - Taeniasis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jns.2007.06.039
DO - 10.1016/j.jns.2007.06.039
M3 - Article
C2 - 17681546
AN - SCOPUS:34548580550
VL - 262
SP - 153
EP - 157
JO - Journal of the Neurological Sciences
JF - Journal of the Neurological Sciences
SN - 0022-510X
IS - 1-2
ER -