|
Title
|
|
|
|
Old focus of cysticercosis in a senegalese village revisited after half a century
| |
|
Author
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
| The objective of this epidemiological study was to determine whether cysticercosis and especially neurocysticercosis is endemic in Soutou village about half a century after the 1962 outbreak. This study was carried out from September 2009 to February 2010. It involved a questionnaire administration, serology, treatment, coproscopy and neuro-imaging. Four hundred and three serum samples were collected from the village people, which covered 94% of the village population. By using a parallel combination of the antigen-detection ELISA and the enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) a cysticercosis seroprevalence of 11.9% (95% CI: 8.915.4%) was found. Cerebral CT-scans showed that 23.3% (10/43) of the seropositives were affected by neurocysticercosis. Four out of these 43 (9.3%) were tapeworm carriers. Seropositivity was significantly associated to older age groups (4160 years old; p = 0.001 and 6191 years old; p = 0.028) and absence of a household toilet (p = 0.001). It can be concluded that Soutou village is an active focus of Taenia solium cysticercosis about 50 years after the first reported epidemic outbreak. |
| |
|
Language
|
|
|
|
English
| |
|
Source (journal)
|
|
|
|
Acta tropica. - Basel
| |
|
Publication
|
|
|
|
Basel
:
2011
| |
|
ISSN
|
|
|
|
0001-706X
| |
|
DOI
|
|
|
|
10.1016/J.ACTATROPICA.2011.05.003
| |
|
Volume/pages
|
|
|
|
119
:2/3
(2011)
, p. 199-202
| |
|
ISI
|
|
|
|
000293717200022
| |
|
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
|
|
|
|
| |
|