Taenia solium cysticercosis and taeniasis in urban settings: Epidemiological evidence from a health-center based study among people with epilepsy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

• Hauptverfasser: Veronika Schmidt (Verfasst von), Marie-Claire O'Hara (Verfasst von), Bernard Ngowi (Verfasst von), Karl-Heinz Herbinger (Verfasst von), John Noh (Verfasst von), Patricia Procell Wilkins (Verfasst von), Vivien Richter (Verfasst von), Christian Kositz (Verfasst von), William Matuja (Verfasst von), Andrea Sylvia Winkler (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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In Africa, urbanization is happening faster than ever before which results in new implications for transmission of infectious diseases. For the zoonotic parasite Taenia solium, a major cause of acquired epilepsy in endemic countries, the prevalence in urban settings is unknown. The present study inv...