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Epidemiology of Human Cysticercosis in Endemic Regions

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Taenia solium establishes its life cycle in regions where domestic pig raising coexists with poor sanitary conditions. Unfortunately, most poor areas of the world, with exception of Muslim populations, fulfill these simple requirements (Gilman et al. 1999). In poor regions, domestic pig raising is a usual component of survival economies, driven as a major incentive by the fact that pigs can be just left to roam by themselves and thus no money or effort need to be spent in food or forage, resulting in a very cheap production. Furthermore, there are very active commercialization systems for pigs and pork in most towns (Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru 1993).

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  1. School of Medicine, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Santo, Ecuador

    Oscar H. Del Brutto

  2. Department of Neurological Sciences, Hospital-Clinica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Oscar H. Del Brutto

  3. Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Peru

    Héctor H. García

  4. School of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

    Héctor H. García

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Del Brutto, O.H., García, H.H. (2014). Epidemiology of Human Cysticercosis in Endemic Regions. In: Cysticercosis of the Human Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39022-7_4

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