Abstract
The Taenia saginata taeniasis-cysticercosis complex is a cosmopolitan zoonosis of great medical, veterinary and economic importance where humans play an important role as the carrier of adult stage and cattle as carrier of the larval stage of the parasite. Here we reviewed aspects concerning diagnosis, vaccine development, biological control and treatment of the disease.
Keywords: Biological control, Cysticercus bovis, diagnosis, Taenia saginata, treatment, vaccine, taeniasis-cysticercosis complex, Taeniasis, cysticerci, Taenia solium, ELISA, Echinococcus, PCR, restriction fragment length polymorphism, RFLP, DdeI, loop-mediated isothermal amplification, LAMP, T. crassiceps, Sarcocystis, Actinobacillus, Taenia hydatigena, Taenia taeniaeformis, oncospheres, T. pisiformis, Confocal fluorescence microscopy, Pochonia chlamydosporia, Duddingtonia flagrans, Nematophagous fungi, Monacrosporium, Duddingtonia, Nitazoxanide, Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia, Hymenolepis nana, Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides, Fasciola hepatica, Entamoeba histolytica, Taenia solium/saginata
Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets
Title: A Glance at Taenia Saginata Infection, Diagnosis, Vaccine, Biological Control and Treatment
Volume: 10 Issue: 5
Author(s): Claudio V. Silva and Julia M. Costa-Cruz
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Keywords: Biological control, Cysticercus bovis, diagnosis, Taenia saginata, treatment, vaccine, taeniasis-cysticercosis complex, Taeniasis, cysticerci, Taenia solium, ELISA, Echinococcus, PCR, restriction fragment length polymorphism, RFLP, DdeI, loop-mediated isothermal amplification, LAMP, T. crassiceps, Sarcocystis, Actinobacillus, Taenia hydatigena, Taenia taeniaeformis, oncospheres, T. pisiformis, Confocal fluorescence microscopy, Pochonia chlamydosporia, Duddingtonia flagrans, Nematophagous fungi, Monacrosporium, Duddingtonia, Nitazoxanide, Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia, Hymenolepis nana, Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides, Fasciola hepatica, Entamoeba histolytica, Taenia solium/saginata
Abstract: The Taenia saginata taeniasis-cysticercosis complex is a cosmopolitan zoonosis of great medical, veterinary and economic importance where humans play an important role as the carrier of adult stage and cattle as carrier of the larval stage of the parasite. Here we reviewed aspects concerning diagnosis, vaccine development, biological control and treatment of the disease.
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V. Silva Claudio and M. Costa-Cruz Julia, A Glance at Taenia Saginata Infection, Diagnosis, Vaccine, Biological Control and Treatment, Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets 2010; 10 (5) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/187152610793180894
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/187152610793180894 |
Print ISSN 1871-5265 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 2212-3989 |
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