Teniasis y cisticercosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
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).
Taeniasis/Cysticercosis
Jan 11, 2022 · Taeniasis/cysticercosis fact sheet: provides key facts and information on transmission, symptoms, treatment, prevention and control and WHO response.
¿Cómo prevenir la teniasis y la cisticercosis?: una infección ...
El ciclo de transmisión Teniasis. Las tenias viven en los intestinos de las personas infectadas. Los huevos de la tenia se liberan con las heces. Si se defeca al aire libre, se puede contaminar el ambiente (incluyendo los vegetales y el agua). Cisticercosis humana. La ingestión de huevos de la tenia (debido a una mala higiene después de ir al baño o al consumir alimentos o agua ...
Taeniasis/Cysticercose - World Health Organization (WHO)
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.
Taeniasis and cysticercosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
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 absence of a proper sanitation may ...
Parasitosis de transmisión alimentaria: Teniasis y Cisticercosis
La teniasis es una infestación intestinal provocada por tres especies de cestodos del género Taenia: T. solium (tenia del cerdo), T. saginata (tenia del vacuno) y T. asiatica. En estas especies, los humanos son el único hospedador definitivo (en el que vive el parásito adulto). Para T. solium, el ser humano también puede ser hospedador intermediario (en el que viven los estadios larvarios ...
Neglected tropical diseases: Taeniasis and cysticercosis
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 human tissues, especially the ...
Guideline for Preventive Chemotherapy for the Control of Taenia …
Sep 5, 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 disease, they shed T. solium eggs, which ...
Taeniasis: large-scale treatment shows interesting and far …
Feb 15, 2021 · A three-year pilot project for the control of taeniasis in Madagascar has shown very interesting and far-reaching results. Eligible adults and children aged five and over in 52 villages in the District of Antanifotsy were treated with the medicine praziquantel (at a dose of 10 mg/kg). The medicine was well-tolerated, with no major side events reported throughout the duration of the project ...
New on-line course on the control of taeniasis/cysticercosis
Jan 15, 2020 · An on-line course based on the manual is also available in Spanish at the PAHO Virtual Campus for Public Health Control de teniasis y cisticercosis causadas por Taenia solium - 2020.