Jan 11, 2022 · Taeniasis/cysticercosis fact sheet: provides key facts and information on transmission, symptoms, treatment, prevention and control and WHO response.

Sep 16, 2023 · Infection with the tapeworm Taenia solium can result in two distinct conditions: taeniasis and cysticercosis. Taeniasis is the intestinal infection with the tapeworm and it occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked, infected pork. Taeniasis has no major impact on human health. However, tapeworm eggs pass in the faeces of the tapeworm carrier and in the …

These circumstances lead to taeniasis and cysticercosis being under-reported and mis- and under-diagnosed, and thus data on human cases and occurrence in animal populations is limited. Currently, these data are more likely to indicate the presence of the disease rather than its …

Jan 11, 2022 · 重要事实 绦虫病指肠道感染绦虫。有三种寄生虫（即猪带绦虫、牛带绦虫和亚洲带绦虫）可引起人类绦虫病。只有猪带绦虫会引起重大健康问题。 人类通过摄入未煮熟的受感染猪肉中的寄生虫幼虫包囊 (囊尾蚴)而获得猪带绦虫病。 人类绦虫携带者在其粪便中排泄绦虫卵，如果露天排便，则会污染 ...

Apr 6, 2020 · Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis infection is an important zoonosis of considerable (veterinary) public health concern that mainly affects poor communities. T. solium taeniasis/cysticercosis is also indicative of poor standards of sanitation and inappropriate pig husbandry practices. Neurocysticercosis is a disease induced by T. solium larvae penetrating …

Feb 22, 2018 · Tapeworm infection of the central nervous system is a leading cause of epilepsy worldwide Neurocysticercosis is a preventable parasitic infection of the central nervous system and is caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. Humans become infected after consuming undercooked food, particularly pork, or water contaminated with tapeworm eggs, or through …

La teniasis es una infección intestinal provocada por dos especies de cestodos. Las infecciones humanas más importantes por cestodos Taenia son las causadas por T. solium (tenia del cerdo) y T. saginata (tenia del vacuno).

Jan 11, 2022 · Le taeniasis est une infection intestinale causée par 3 espèces de ténias. Cet aide-mémoire aborde donc la transmission et les conséquences sur la santé de l'un d'entre eux, T. solium, qui peut avoir des effets dévastateurs sur la santé humaine.

Reliable epidemiological data on geographical distribution of T. solium taeniasis and cysticercosis in people and pigs is still scarce. Appropriate surveillance mechanisms should enable new cases of human or porcine cysticercosis to be recorded in order to help identify communities at high risk and focus prevention and control measures in these areas. WHO has, with countries and key …

Sep 2, 2021 · Taenia solium is a zoonotic tapeworm found globally but with particularly high transmission and hyperendemnicity in parts of Latin America, South and South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Depending on its life cycle, it causes two distinct presentations in humans: taeniasis and (neuro) cysticercosis. Although people with taeniasis do not have severe …