Spatial distribution of Taenia solium exposure in humans and pigs in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

• Main Authors: Dinh Ng-Nguyen (Author), Rebecca Justine Traub (Author), Van-Anh Thi Nguyen (Author), Kathleen Breen (Author), Mark Anthony Stevenson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Taenia solium, a pork-borne parasitic zoonosis, is the cause of taeniasis and cysticercosis in humans. In Vietnam, poor sanitation, the practice of outdoor defecation and consumption of raw/undercooked pork have been associated with infection/exposure to T. solium in both humans and pigs....