GPS Tracking of Free-Ranging Pigs to Evaluate Ring Strategies for the Control of Cysticercosis/Taeniasis in Peru.

• Main Authors: Ian W Pray (Author), Dallas J Swanson (Author), Viterbo Ayvar (Author), Claudio Muro (Author), Luz M Moyano (Author), Armando E Gonzalez (Author), Hector H Garcia (Author), Seth E O'Neal (Author), Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Taenia solium, a parasitic cestode that affects humans and pigs, is the leading cause of preventable epilepsy in the developing world. T. solium eggs are released into the environment through the stool of humans infected with an adult intestinal tapeworm (a condition called taeniasis), an...